The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place 64 years before the events of the main series. It tells about the eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snowie, who became the tyrant president of the Lord state. He sees an opportunity for a change of fate when he is chosen to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a girl from impoverished District 12.
The prequel is produced by Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and director Francis Lawrence, who previously worked on three Hunger Games films .
Publisher David Levithan spoke about The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in 2020 :
We are seeing Snow evolving and that is interesting. For me, however, the most interesting part was watching the evolution of Panem and watching the Hunger Games in their tenth year, how primitive they were, and how the themes and all the ideas we see later in the trilogy have their origins. When you see them in the trilogy, you already have a doomed opinion: The Hunger Games are the Hunger Games, they are evil and shameful. Noticing a point where they didn’t have to go that way, when you could say wavering, what was the emphasis on their existence, it was all fascinating because there are lessons to be learned about human nature, about societies and governments that would come out to be listened to. us for good.
He also added a few words about the main character of the novel:
Everyone thought at first that this was going to be a Fallen Angel story – Snow would be a hero, then something would happen and he would become angry. What Suzanne shows is something much more complicated than this theme.
