Set roughly 64 years before The Hunger Games, The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes follows Coriolanus Snow, an 18-year-old who eventually rises to become the evil dictator ruler of the dystopian nation Panem.
Francis Lawrence, the man behind all The Hunger Games movies, is returning to direct a prequel based on Susan Collins’s The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
The cast and release date of the film adaptation of The Ballad of Song Birds and Snakes is yet to be announced.
The story starts at the 10th annual Hunger Games, where Snow is chosen to be a mentor for a young girl of District 12, the future home of Katniss Everdeen.