" May fate be favorable to you ". As expected, the slogan of the Hunger Games franchise will resonate again in dark rooms. Unsurprisingly, the Lionsgate studio confirmed on Tuesday that it had started a film inspired by the new volume of dystopia imagined by Suzanne Collins. At the helm is a regular at the "Hunger Games": Francis Lawrence. The director had produced three of the previous four parts. L'Embrasement and the two parts of La Révolte . In all, the four feature films accumulated almost $ 3 billion in box office revenue between 2012 and 2015.
Normally released in bookstores on May 19, The Ballad of the Snake and the Singing Bird takes place over sixty before the exploits of Katniss Everdeen, the original heroine of Hunger Games , played by Jennifer Lawrence. Suzanne Collins shines the spotlight on the youth of Coriolanus Snow, long before he becomes the fearsome and bloody tyrant at the head of a post-apocalyptic America called Panem.
Connection with district 12
Donald Sutherland played Corionalus Snow at the height of his power. Lionsgate
At that time, Snow was not yet the manipulative and omnipotent leader, the white rose hanging on the jacket that Katniss Everdeen would eventually remove. He is an attractive and charismatic young man whose family has experienced a reversal of fortune. A downgrade from which Snow could extricate himself by becoming the mentor of a tribute from the tenth edition of the “Hunger Games”. A new function created to breathe new life into the event, which is losing popularity with citizens.
Las, Snow quickly becomes disillusioned when he learns that he will supervise and train a candidate from district 12. The region which specializes in mining is the most disadvantaged in Panem. Its inhabitants do not eat their fill. Fragile, malnourished, endowed with diminished physical strength, the children sacrificed in the arena are the first to be exterminated by their comrades and adversaries from other districts. Circus games broadcast live across the nation after which only a teenager will survive.
This connection to District 12 ignited the imagination of fans of the saga. Snow, who in the films had the falsely benevolent face of Donald Sutherland's grandfather of the nation, will he meet the ancestors of Katniss or his alcoholic mentor Haymitch? The only one before the girl to have won the games on behalf of District 12. Other readers also hope to find out more information about the war that led to the birth of Panem and his murderous games.
It is far too early to know if Lionsgate has actors in mind to embody the protagonists of The Ballad of the Serpent and the Singing Bird. On Twitter, some are already dreaming of the names of Timothée Chalamet (Call Me By Your Name), Domhnall Gleeson ( Pierre Lapin ) or Jack Quaid (The Boys) to camp the young and ambitious Corionalus Snow .
