Casting has not yet been announced. Also returning are franchise producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson. Michael Lesslie is currently adapted the book currently. Michael Arndt, the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Little Miss Sunshine, was previously adapting after serving as one of the writers of Catching Fire. Collins also will serve as an EP. The prequel movie will focus on Coriolanus Snow at age 18, years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem.
Young Coriolanus is handsome and charming, and though the Snow family has fallen on hard times, he sees a chance for a change in his fortunes when he is chosen to be a mentor for the Tenth Hunger Games… only to have his elation dashed when he is assigned to mentor the girl tribute from impoverished District Collins will write the film's treatment an outline-style first draft of the script , while screenwriter Michael Arndt who worked on Catching Fire will adapt the screenplay.
Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpson who produced the original trilogy will serve as producers alongside executive producer Collins. It offers everything fans could hope for and expect from The Hunger Games while also breaking new ground and introducing an entirely new canvas of characters," Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Chairman Joe Drake said in a statement.
That means a new set of roles will need to be cast, some that may have ties to Katniss Everdeen and co. The prequel story takes place 64 years before the events of the original trilogy, rendering cameos from cast members including Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, or Woody Harrelson nearly impossible.
The last time Lawrence was asked about appearing in a prequel film she told Variety , "I wouldn't be involved. I think it's too soon. They've got to let the body get cold, in my opinion. Shop Elle. United States. Type keyword s to search. Today's Top Stories.
That's because, set 64 years before the original novels, none of those characters are even close to being born yet. Even Donald Sutherland, who plays Snow in the movie series, may not reprise his role because "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" only focuses on one year when Snow was a teenager.
There are no casting announcements for the movie, so we don't know yet who will star as the younger version of Snow. However, behind the scenes, Lionsgate said that Francis Lawrence, the director of the original films, will return to direct the prequel, and franchise producers Nina Jacobson and Brad Simpsons are returning.
Deadline reported that Collins will write the film's treatment while Oscar-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt will write the screenplay. Arndt had also served as a writer on "Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
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