The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The button ofThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesis finally here , and the cast and originative squad recently gathered in New York City to lionise on the red carpeting . Based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins , the plastic film is a prequel to the originalHunger Gamesseries and follows future President Snow in his spring chicken . The picture show starsBilly the Kid ’s Tom Blyth , West Side Story ’s Rachel Zegler , The Woman King ’s Viola Davis , andEuphoria ’s Hunter Schafer alongside many other talented cast extremity .
coiffe 64 years before the original trilogy , The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesexplores the beginning account of the enfranchisement ’s main scoundrel and his rise to power . Snow ( Blyth ) is appoint as a mentor for the 10th annual Hunger Games for Lucy Gray Baird ( Zegler ) - who sets herself aside through a performance during the reaping - and the two end up mould together to win the competition . The film explores how the Hunger Games in its infancy and how Snow came to be the insensate and bestial character fans are intimate with , while also raise questions about the world ’s lore and perhaps build fans see theoriginalHunger Gamesdifferently .
blind Rantinterviewed the talented originative squad behind the film , including director Francis Lawrence , manufacturer Nina Jacobson , and more .
Francis Lawrence Talks The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Director
Screen Rant : I ’d get it on to hear what you think the biggest challenges were that come with making a prequel that ’s in an already existing macrocosm .
Francis Lawrence : Honestly , it ’s just with the story itself I think , because we ’re telling the blood of a villain , a history of the origin of a scoundrel . It ’s really to characterise him in a means when he ’s younger , he ’s not amply formed , specifically not philosophically formed , and make certain that we can get the audience behind him , rout for him , empathizing with him , all of that . I guess that was the big trick of this moving picture .
Were there scene that stick out to you the most from shoot because they were especially hard to get mightily translating it from the book ?
Francis Lawrence : No , not really . I recall it ’s like every movie has its challenges . This picture had challenges on its own , but I remember that most of it was really exciting . I mean , there ’s some technically ambitious things in the game and sometimes you might worry about euphony sequences , but Rachel ’s such an amazing singer , that was n’t an issue . And there ’s some excited scene I was obviously disturbed about because the actors have to contain a lot , but Tom , our lead , just killed those moments . It work really well .
Do you think Lucy Gray survives ?
Francis Lawrence : I do n’t give anything up . It ’s a mystery .
Fair enough .
Francis Lawrence : It ’s a mystery .
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Nina Jacobson Talks The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Producer
Screen Rant : First , I would love to see what you suppose the biggest challenge were that derive with making a prequel that ’s set in a preexist world .
Nina Jacobson : Well , I call back for us it was like making a period movie and trying to conceive of sort of the history of the Capitol , contain into account you ’re 10 years from the war , people were reconstruct . And we used a bunch of references from reconstructionist Germany . We had amazing practical locations that we were capable to use that really set the stage , but we also need it to experience recognisable . You require people to know that this is a world they sleep together , but they ’re just insure it before some of the detail has been satiate in .
And also to ideate the game at a time that they have not yet been turned into the spectacle , that the unsmooth edges have not been smoothed out in quite the same style . People are showing up in the getup they were draw , for instance , instead of having uniforms . And they ’re more intense . And in the same elbow room that you taste to make sort of the unbearable a good , you see Snow and his schoolfellow struggling to turn the games into a spectacle , into a trade good .
What theme did you desire to be sure came through in the film the most ?
Nina Jacobson : I retrieve that Suzanne was very interesting in this book , exploring sort of the allurement of authoritarianism , what draws hoi polloi towards that sort of powerfulness . And also how we palpate about each other , whether we trust or distrust each other when we are polarize each other , how that fuel the pull towards extremism , towards totalitarianism .
So I think some of the really big mind that she need to explore , but also to see a young character who ’s not amply make in Snow , and to see how it ’s never a give way that you will mature to be a scoundrel or a hero . That you make those choices and those pick define you . And you ’re catching him at a time in his life where everything he believes is thrown into question . The choices he makes are the one that deform him into the man we will ultimately issue forth to loathe and fear .
Do you call back Lucy Gray lives ?
Nina Jacobson : Yes , I sure do . She ’s a survivor , first and first . She ’s clever . She ’s wiley . I utterly believe she ’s out there .
Trish Summerville Talks The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Costume Designer
Screen Rant : Costumes are such an integral part of the Hunger Games and how they work . What outfits were the biggest challenge in that compliments ?
Trish Summerville : Probably the self-aggrandising challenge is the large volume that we have to do . I mean , we have all the principals , and we do their costumes . As an representative , Lucy Gray ’s rainbow frock - there ’s 10 multiples of that one dress because we have so many stunts and so many days we ’re burgeon forth . And then you look at something like the Academy uniforms for the kids , for the scholarly person . If we have 500 students we ’re plume , we have to make about 1500 costumes to fit 500 . So credibly the biggest challenge is the large scale of the film .
Are there any costume where you palpate like you get to go really all out and be particularly creative and get weird with it ?
Trish Summerville : I mean , definitely Dr. Gaul ’s costumes . We got to angle into the high-strung quirkiness that she is , lean into that future sci - fi feel that she has . So probably Dr. Gaul ’s costumes .
And were there any outfit you had a vision for , but they just wound up not being feasible for whatever reason ?
Trish Summerville : No , I mean , I ’m pretty critical as a costume house decorator , as a person , so pretty much everything we made , we take in . The only thing I would say is that I always want to see Hunter , Tigris ’s character head to toe , and I did n’t get that one .
Dave Cobb Talks The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Music Producer
Screen Rant : First , I would love to have intercourse just a small bit about what it felt like exit into a photographic film with such larger-than-life scenes ? How do you approach that musically ?
Dave Cobb : It ’s all terrific . What ’s interesting about this flick is the first time there ’s a singing character , so you have at least some handcuffs off for that , because no one ’s told you what to do or how to do it , so we just hoped it was going to be undecomposed . And Rachel Zegler certainly made it better than we could ever think .
What was it like directing her in those songs ? What theatrical role did you play in that ?
Dave Cobb : There was n’t a whole lot of handholding to do . She ’s such a pro . Whatever we had with the pre - record , she overreach it . She was so good , so real and so honest , and she made my life easy .
Were there any panorama that establish to be especially unmanageable for whatever reason to get the sound just right ?
Dave Cobb : Not for her . It just feel all true and real and she sang every line survive too , in the film , which is incredible . She can do that .
How did that convert things , having her platter it live instead ?
Dave Cobb : Well , I think she ’s reacting to the vista . Francis would say , " This is happening here , this is happening there . " And she would react to it and interchange the timing and alter the feel and the vigor and emotion . She ’s a superstar .
Are there any behind - the - scenes moment like that especially adhere out to you ?
Dave Cobb : Not really . It was just so seamless , because you had somebody who could take where you started and take it to a whole other place .
About The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes
secernate the story of the origins of the future President Coriolanus Snow , as he mentor District 12 tribute Lucy Gray Baird in the 10th annual Hunger Games .
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