Songbirds

Screenshot: LionsgamesIf you’re a Hunger Games fan, chances are you’ve been waiting on pins and needles for the first teaser to the prequel movie, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, to arrive online, especially if you learned a teaser had been released a month ago at CinemaCon. That trailer has now been released for the larger world to enjoy, and while it fails to include any footage of the events leading up to Katniss’ overthrow of Panem, it also fails to answer a very important question: Do we need a Hunger Games…

Next year, The Hunger Games saga will be returning to theaters with the adaptation of author Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. With actor Tom Blyth cast as the young Coriolanus Snow, we’re starting to get a feel for who will be filling out the important roles from Panem’s past in the upcoming movie. A new piece in that particular puzzle has just fallen into place, as the lead actress in this Hunger Games prequel has been cast, with West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler now playing the role of…

Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for The Recording Academy The Hunger Games film franchise has found its next star. Previously, we covered some speculation regarding whether Golden Globe winner Rachel Zegler was pulling a fast one on us or not, with a cryptic tweet that spelled out the name “Lucy Gray Baird” when the first letter of each word is isolated. It turned out to be a cheeky slice of foreshadowing, as it’s now been confirmed that the West Side Story star will be taking on the role of Lucy Gray…