The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes streaming (2024)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a sci-fi dystopian adventure film. It serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games (2012) and is the fifth film within the Hunger Games franchise. It is set to be directed by Francis Lawrence, who has directed every Hunger Games film since The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013). The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is an adaptation of the 2020 spin-off prequel book written by series creator Suzanne Collins. Collins serves as an executive producer for the movie.

The film stars Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird. Josh Andres Rivera stars as Sejanus Plinth, a Hunger Games mentor who is friends with Snow. Game of Thrones alumnus Peter Dinklage plays Casca Highbottom. Hunter Schafer portrays Tigris, Snow’s cousin. Acclaimed actress and multi-award-winner Viola Davis portrays a new character named Volumnia Gaul who is known as the Head Gamemaker. Tony Award nominee Fionnula Flanagan is Grandma'am to Coriolanus Snow and Flora Li Thiemann portrays the tribute mentor Livia Carden. Mayfair Lipp, a politician's daughter is played by Isobel Jesper Jones and Honor Gillies plays a character named Barb Azure.The wider cast includes; Eike Onyambu, Konstantin Taffet, Burn Gorman, Scott Folan, Carl Spencer, Michael Greco and Daniela Grubert who all contribute to the unnerving world of this The Hunger Games prequel. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was released in cinemas on November 17, 2023.

• August 8, 2017
  • Lionsgate CEO, Jon Feltheimer suggested that the company was on board with producing new instalments of the Hunger Games, as long as series creator Suzanne Collins was on board. (Source: Variety)
• June 17, 2019
  • With Suzanne Collins working on finishing up the Hunger Games prequel novel, Lionsgate confirmed that they are looking at a movie adaptation. (Source: Deadline)
• April 21, 2020
  • Director Francis Lawrence who helmed the previous three films of the Hunger Games franchise signed on to direct the film which was confirmed to be titled Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.(Source: Collider)
• April 28, 2022
  • Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was given a release date of November 17, 2023 at CinemaCon 2022. (Source: Collider)
• May 31, 2022
  • Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler are confirmed to be playing the two main characters of the film, Coriolanus Snow and Lucy Gray Baird.(Source: Deadline)
• June 6, 2022
  
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was given its first visual reveal with a short YouTube teaser showing a golden bird and snake breaking out of the ice. (Source: YouTube)
• June 22, 2022
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes casts Jason Schwartzman as Lucretius 'Lucky' Flickerman. (Source: Hollywood Reporter)
• June 26, 2022
  
  • Hunter Schafer joins the cast of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The Euphoria star will be playing Tigris Snow, the cousin and confidante of the future President of Panem. (Source: Deadline)
• July 18, 2022
  • Peter Dinklage joins the cast portraying Casca Highbottom. (Source: Entertainment Weekly)
• August 15, 2022
  • Multi-award winner, Viola Davis, is confirmed to have joined the cast. She is portraying Volumnia Gaul, the Head Gamemaker. (Source: Variety)
• August 16, 2022
  • A new still image from the movie is released offering a glimpse at a softer side of the franchise villain President Snow. (Source: Collider)
• September 17, 2022
  • A huge casting update adds eleven new faces to call list; notable amongst them are Fionnula Flanagan playing Snow's grandmother known as Grandma'am, Isobel Jesper Jones portraying the mayor's daughter Mayfair Lipp and Flora Li Thiemann playing tribute mentor Livia Carden. (Source: Collider)
• November 11, 2022
  • Lead star Rachel Zegler confirmed that filming had finished by tweeting out an on-set image. (Source: Collider)
• September 20, 2023
  • The first full-length official trailer is released. It shows a young Coriolanus Snow and one of the founders of the Hunger Games, Dean Casca Highbottom, played by Peter Dinklage. (Source: Variety)
• October 13, 2023
  • The movie is given a PG-13 rating for strong violent content and disturbing images. (Source: ScreenRant)
• November 17, 2023
  • The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes was released in cinemas. (Source: Deadline)