“Snow lands on top.”
Story: It’s time for the tenth annual Hunger Games. After Panem’s failed revolution decimated the Capitol, the once shining city is starting to rebuild. A young Coriolanus “Cori” Snow is tasked with being the mentor for a District 12 tribute, with his future riding on whether he can make her a “star”. But when the Games – and Lucy Gray – become more than he’d bargained for, he must re-evaluate what is truly important to him. Spoiler alert: he’s the villain in the OG trilogy, so don’t expect much.
Genre I’d put it in: Prequels of Popular Series
Release Date: 2023
Remake, Sequel, Based-On, or Original: Prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy of books and films. Based on the book of the same name.
Gotta say: The thing with prequels is this; it’s not that we’re watching to see what will happen. We know what will come later, as we’ve seen the film/read the book. It’s the telling of the tale that’s the thing. And Snakes takes viewers to a struggling but proud Capitol, letting us see how post-war District 1 was torn between retribution and forgiveness amid new life. Director Francis Lawrence returns to Panem – or is that travels back in time? – and delivers a story that has its own feel, but with plenty of touchstones that keep us rooted in this world. I wasn’t sure I was up for a prequel that focused on the Big Bad of the original story, but with Snakes, it’s the city struggling after years of strife, and how it’s trying to climb out of the hole it dug itself, that I found truly fascinating.
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