Hunger Games series, the young adult science fiction series that took the world by storm, starts with an immediate bang. So we want to see what happened during the First Rebellion because it led to the Hunger Games and Snow's hateful heart.Suzanne Collins breathtaking prequel to the bestselling Snow helped modernize the Games to make it more entertaining and cruel as a school project in revenge for his family's suffering during the Rebellion. The Capitol suffered greatly because of the Rebellion and launched the Hunger Games as a reminder of what happens when people decide to rebel. The first attempt of the Districts endured for three years until the Capitol systematically crushed them one by one until only 13 remained, which only survived by threatening the Capitol with nuclear war, and remained hidden until the time was right for the Second Rebellion. Just like how District 13 led the successful Second Rebellion that destroyed Snow's Capitol regime in the main films, District 13 also led the failed First Rebellion. We don't know the origins of the dystopian nation or how the world became so, but we know that Panem instituted the Games for a reason, ironically the same reason that ended the Games - rebellion. Going so far back in time in the history of Panem, there are a lot of questions and mysteries from the main films that Songbirds and Snakes could answer and solve, with lots that we want to visit again, and there is much that we hope to see carry over from the novel, so here's what we want to see in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.Ĭatching Fire ends with the 75th Hunger Games, the final official Games (we don't know if Coin's Games to kill Capitol children ever happened after her death), but Panem is older than the Games, and the rebellion of the Districts we see in the main films wasn't their first. Set sixty years before the main films, we will see the 10th Hunger Games and an entirely new aspect of the society that forces children to fight to the death in order to serve as both oppressive control over the subjugated Districts and wild entertainment.īased on Suzanne Collins' novel of the same name, Songbirds and Snakes will focus on the President of Panem Coriolanus 'Coryo' Snow (Tom Vlyth) when he was just a high school senior long before he became a tyrannical dictator and the female tribute from District 12 Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), whom he must mentor for the Games.

After eight long years, fans of the Hunger Games can return to the bloody dystopian world of Panem in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, coming this November.

The ballad of song birds and snakes