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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes – In Theaters November 17, 2023. Starring Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman, and Viola Davis.

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00:00 (thunder rumbling)

00:02 How tantalizing to see all your shining young faces

00:09 on this auspicious day.

00:10 I am Dr. Volumnia Ghaul, your humble head game maker

00:16 in charge of the War Department

00:18 and all its affiliated concerns.

00:21 I am honored to introduce to you

00:24 the creator of the Hunger Games themselves,

00:28 Dean Casca Highbottom.

00:31 I have summoned you all here today

00:33 for the 10th annual reaping ceremony

00:36 in which we choose two children from each district

00:39 to throw into the capital arena

00:42 to fight to the death in the Hunger Games.

00:45 I am here to tell you that there has been a change this year.

00:49 One final assignment to prove your worth.

00:53 It's a story that takes place 64 years

00:54 before the first installment of the movies

00:57 and focuses on young Snow.

01:00 Look at you,

01:00 your makeshift shirt and your too tight shoes

01:04 trying desperately to fit in

01:07 when I know the Snows don't have a pot to piss in.

01:11 Snow is being groomed to become the man he becomes.

01:16 As a mentor, your role is to turn these children

01:19 into spectacles, not survivors.

01:22 Persuade them to perform for the camera.

01:27 Lucy Gray, the one who Snow becomes the mentor for

01:31 and also falls in love with,

01:32 there's a very naturalistic quality to her,

01:35 but she's a charmer, she's a musician,

01:37 she's a performer, she's kind of the anti-catniss.

01:40 She's part of the Covey,

01:41 this kind of roving band of musicians.

01:45 Snow's never met anybody like her.

01:47 That romance between them makes Snow question

01:51 everything he was raised to believe.

01:55 I think there's a natural goodness born into us all.

01:59 You know, really,

01:59 you can either cross that line into evil

02:03 or not.

02:06 And it's our life's work to stay

02:08 on the right side of that line.

02:09 Part of the love story starts to fall apart

02:12 and that is part of the creation of who he becomes.

02:17 It's the things we love most that destroy us.

02:22 Most everybody that I work with is coming back

02:25 Trish Somerville is doing the costumes for this movie.

02:28 Bill Willems who shot Catching Fire, The Mockingjays.

02:31 The one new person that I'm really excited about

02:33 is Uli Hanisch, who's the production designer.

02:36 We talked about the sort of look and the feel of the movie.

02:39 The visuals of this movie will be very different

02:41 than Mockingjay, but there's real consistency

02:44 in terms of the capital architecture.

02:47 We get to sort of reinvent the world of Panem,

02:50 to sort of deconstruct what the games are

02:52 that we're sort of used to and go back in time.

02:55 It wasn't until I read it that I saw how much music

02:58 was actually in here.

02:59 We met with Dave Cobb, he's a fantastic songwriter

03:02 and producer.

03:03 It's gonna be fun to take all this history

03:05 of British Isles music and Southern music

03:07 and mash it all together in this dystopian way

03:10 in this future.

03:11 James Newton Howard, it's my fourth

03:13 Hunger Games film with him.

03:15 The musical opportunity is great.

03:17 Relationships are very powerful in the movie.

03:22 The good and the bad are very clearly laid out.

03:25 For James and I, it was really fun to explore

03:28 a new sound for the Hunger Games.

03:30 Sometimes it's foot stomping and rousing

03:33 and sometimes it's haunting, mysterious,

03:36 and a lot of that is based on the kind of period

03:38 of the movie itself.

03:40 There's gonna be some familiar elements as well.

03:43 - Hanging Tree is back in a completely different

03:46 iteration and treatment.

03:48 - Here we get to see Lucy Gray coming up with it

03:51 for the first time.

03:52 (dramatic music)

03:55 ♪ Are you ♪

04:00 ♪ Are you ♪

04:03 ♪ Coming to the tree ♪

04:06 ♪ Where I told you to run ♪

04:09 ♪ So we'd both be free ♪

04:13 ♪ Strange things did happen here ♪

04:15 ♪ Who's stranger would it be ♪

04:19 ♪ If you lit up any night ♪

04:24 ♪ In the hanging tree ♪

04:32 (dramatic music)

04:39 (dramatic music)

04:41 (dramatic music)

04:44 (orchestral music)

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