The filming of the long-awaited adaptation of “The Hunger Games – The song of birds and snakes” has already been completed.
The information was revealed by star Rachel Zegler, who will bring the protagonist, the interpreter of Lucy Gray Baird, to life.
On his Twitter profile, Zegler shared behind-the-scenes footage holding a clapperboard and wrote:
“I loved every second. And we’ve reached the end of the recordings.
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I loved every second. and it is a wrap. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/1rHmOVA4hM
— rachel zegler (she/her/it) (@rachelzegler) November 5, 2022
Previously, Lionsgate released a video in which Zegler takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour.
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Tom Blyth also stars in the production as a young Coriolanus Snow.
The cast also includes Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Dimitri Abold, Athena Strates, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner, Vaughan Reilly, Peter Dinklage, Viola Davis, Jerome Lance, Ashley Liao, Knox Gibson, Mackenzie Lansing, Aamer . Husain, Jason Schwartzman, Max Raphael, Zoe Renee, Ayomide Adegun, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi, Sofia Sanchez and Amélie Hoeferle.
Boehm will play Lamina, a District 7 tribute. Dillon will play Mizzen, a District 4 tribute, while Strates will play his mentor, Persephone Price. Kuse and Bruscheidt will be tributes Brandy and Tanner, respectively, from District 10. Abold will be Reaper, tribute from District 11. Shapiro and Reilly will be two Covey members, Billy Taupe and Maude Ivory, respectively. Somner will play Spruce from District 12.
Dinklage will play Casca Highbottom, dean of the Academy and unwitting creator of the Hunger Games. When the games were officially announced, Highbottom served as the public face of the event, setting off a spiral that would last for years and culminate in his assassination by future President Coriolanus Snow. Davis, meanwhile, will be the commander of the 10th annual Hunger Games, Dr. Volumnie Gaul.
Lance will play Marcus, a District 2 tribute; Liao will play Clemensia Dovecote, one of Snow’s closest friends and District 11 tribute mentor; Gibson will play Bobbin, a District 8 tribute; Lansing will play Coral, District 4 tribute; Husain will play District 11 tribute mentor Felix Ravinstill; and, finally, Schwartzman will be Lucrécio “Lucky” Flickerman, host of the Hunger Games.
Fionnula Flanagan (Grandmother), Isobel Jesper Jones (Mayfair Lipp), Honor Gillies (Barb Azure), Eike Onyambu (Tam Amber), Konstantin Taffet (Clerk Carmine), Burn Gorman (Commander Hoff), Scott Folan (Beanpole), Carl Spencer (Smiley), Michael Greco (Strabo Plinth) and Daniela Grubert (Mrs. Plinth) complete the team.
Remember that the film will be distributed in Brazil by Paris Filmes and will be released on November 16, 2023.
Check out the first teaser:
“Years before becoming the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change of fortune when he is chosen to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the tribute girl from impoverished District 12.”
The story of ‘Song of the Birds and the Serpents’ is based on the prequel book by Suzanne Collins and is set 64 years before the first films, telling the plot of the dark days, a period of 10 years after the war, before Panem reaches its peak.
The film will be directed by Francis Lawrence, responsible for directing the last three chapters of “The Hunger Games”. The script is written by Collins herself and by Michael Arndt, who worked on “Catching Fire”.