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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

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SAM CLAFLIN AS FINNICK ODAIR The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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ZENDAYA & LUPITA NYONG’O Lancôme’s Teint Idole Ultra Wear campaign

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Meet your new hero.

We know Coriolanus Snow, from Suzanne Collins’ original Hunger Games trilogy and its film adaptations (where he was portrayed by Donald Sutherland), to be a villain — a manipulative tyrant, a brutal killer. Those were Katniss Everdeen’s novels, after all, and Snow’s dictatorial presidency stood as the main antagonist to her resistance-underdog story. But what if there was more to him than we knew? What if he could be — crazy as it may sound — a hero?

Last June, Scholastic announced that Collins had written a prequel set 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, titled The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (out May 19). And now EW can offer eager fans a taste of what to expect with this first excerpt — and reveal Snow as our new protagonist, a teenager born to privilege but searching for something more, a far cry from the man we know he will become. Here, he’s friendly. He’s charming. And, for now anyway, he’s a hero.

Excerpt from The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Suzanne Collins

The grand staircase up to the Academy could hold the entire student body, so it easily accommodated the stream of officials, professors, and students headed for the reaping day festivities. Coriolanus climbed it slowly, attempting a casual dignity in case he caught anyone’s eye. People knew him—or at least they had known his parents and grandparents—and there was a certain standard expected of a Snow. This year, beginning this very day, he was hoping to achieve personal recognition as well. Mentoring in the Hunger Games was his final project before graduating from the Academy in midsummer. If he gave an impressive performance as a mentor, with his outstanding academic record, Coriolanus should be awarded a monetary prize substantial enough to cover his tuition at the University.

There would be twenty-four tributes, one boy and one girl from each of the twelve defeated districts, drawn by lottery to be thrown into an arena to fight to the death in the Hunger Games. It was all laid out in the Treaty of Treason that had ended the Dark Days of the districts’ rebellion, one of the many punishments borne by the rebels. As in the past, the tributes would be dumped into the Capitol Arena, a now-dilapidated amphitheater that had been used for sports and entertainment events before the war, along with some weapons to murder one another. Viewing was encouraged in the Capitol, but a lot of people avoided it. How to make it more engaging was the challenge.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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#idk how i feel abt this #i was rly shocked when i read that part #but we'll see what happens when the book comes out tho #there'll be a lot of things to figure out #so I'm quite curious and nervous abt this novel #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (2013) dir. Francis Lawrence

#catching fire

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First look at The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes by Suzanne Collins (May 19th 2020)

The book will feature a young President Snow and will be a villain origin story.

#woah!#snow #the ballad of songbirds and snakes

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the child + ear droop

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Almost ten years since our last cover reveal, we’re here once more with a fourth installment in The Hunger Games series! The title for the n

Almost ten years since our last cover reveal, we’re here once more with a fourth installment in The Hunger Games series!

The title for the new book is:

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES

“With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival,” Suzanne Collins said. “The reconstruction period 10 years after the war, commonly referred to as the Dark Days — as the country of Panem struggles back to its feet — provides fertile ground for characters to grapple with these questions and thereby define their views of humanity.”

THE BALLAD OF SONGBIRDS AND SNAKES hits shelves on May 19, 2020. Preorder it HERE.