Rachel Zegler to Join Tom Blyth in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Rachel Zegler has joined the cast of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Based on Suzanne Collins’ #1 New York Times bestseller, Zegler is set to play the female lease, Lucy Gray Baird.

Alongside Tom Blyth, “Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Blyth)is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. But, after Lucy Gray commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.

Production on the movie will begin later this year. It will be released to theaters on November 17, 2023.

Source: Lionsgate