The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes wasn’t made simply to cash in on the popularity of the Hunger Games franchise, according to producer Nina Jacobson.Jacobson insisted that the creative intentions behind the upcoming prequel were pure in an interview with Polygon. “You could have gone with a fan favorite [character] — ‘Let’s do Haymitch’s story! Or do Finnick’s games! — but that would be doing it to do it,” she said. “If [Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins] had a story in this world with something she wanted to talk about, something to explore, then great. But if not, better to leave a franchise as something people feel fondly about rather than crank out a sequel for the sake of a sequel.”In the same interview, Jacobson also talked up The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ origin story for Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), who served as one of the major antagonists in the original Hunger Games movies. The producer revealed that The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ opening scene will offer fans a window into the future President of Panem’s traumatic childhood, at a time when “people are literally starving and doing whatever they have to to survive during war.” Jacobson touched on Blyth’s performance as well, praising the star for recreating the “intrinsic qualities” of his predecessor in the Snow role, Donald Sutherland.Related: Rachel Zegler Is the ‘Anti-Katniss’ in Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Director Says
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes wasn’t made simply to cash in on the popularity of the Hunger Games franchise, according to producer Nina Jacobson.
Jacobson insisted that the creative intentions behind the upcoming prequel were pure in an interview with Polygon. “You could have gone with a fan favorite [character] — ‘Let’s do Haymitch’s story! Or do Finnick’s games! — but that would be doing it to do it,” she said. “If [Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins] had a story in this world with something she wanted to talk about, something to explore, then great. But if not, better to leave a franchise as something people feel fondly about rather than crank out a sequel for the sake of a sequel.”
In the same interview, Jacobson also talked up The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes‘ origin story for Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth), who served as one of the major antagonists in the original Hunger Games movies. The producer revealed that The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes‘ opening scene will offer fans a window into the future President of Panem’s traumatic childhood, at a time when “people are literally starving and doing whatever they have to to survive during war.” Jacobson touched on Blyth’s performance as well, praising the star for recreating the “intrinsic qualities” of his predecessor in the Snow role, Donald Sutherland.
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