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Following The Success Of The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, There Are Two Hunger Games Characters Fans Want Prequels For Next

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes proved there's still an appetite for The Hunger Games, but what characters would it focus on next?

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8 Hunger Games Characters I Want To See Get A Prequel After The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes

There are plenty of great Hunger Games characters that I would love to see get their own book and movie. Here are a few of them.

Cinemablend

Review of "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes"

The new movie is a compelling film version of Suzanne Collins' prequel to the Hunger Games trilogy.

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Is The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Getting A Sequel? Snow Actor Tom Blyth Shares His Thoughts

The Ballads of Songbirds and Snakes star Tom Blyth weighs in on whether we’ll get a sequel to the Hunger Games prequel.

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Songbirds And Snakes Writer Defends Lucy Gray Baird’s Ambiguous Ending

One of The Hunger Games' prequel's screenwriters shares why the ending of Rachel Zegler's Lucy Gray Baird isn't straightforward.

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Best fantasy books for adults: Top novels to read from Impossible Creatures to Jonathan Strange

Whether re-reading childhood classics or discovering contemporary masterpieces, let’s escape the real world for a moment or two

Evening Standard

The Sweet Memory The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Rachel Zegler Has From Seeing The Hunger Games In Theaters As A Child

Rachel Zegler is a longtime fan of The Hunger Games, and she spoke about her love for the franchise as she stars in the prequel.

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10 Years Ago, A Thrilling Post-Apocalyptic Sequel Gave a Shot in the Arm to a Trendy Genre

'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' stands the test of time as a great page-to-screen adaptation — and a cautionary tale about our own present-day dystopia.

Inverse

The Biggest Dystopian Thriller of the Year Makes One Rare Mistake

Can a movie be too faithful to its source material? 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes' makes a crucial mistake by failing to streamline the plot-heavy story of the novel that inspired it.

Inverse

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Ending Explained: How The Hunger Games Prequel Ties Back To The Original Movies

Here's how the villain origin story of The Hunger Games' President Snow shakes out in The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

Cinemablend

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review — a prequel done right

Read WTW's The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review to find out how it turns out to be a worthwhile origin story.

WhatToWatch

‘The Hunger Games’ starts fresh, without Katniss, in ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’

Eight years after the Katniss Everdeen saga closed, a new Hunger Games prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” arrives in theaters nationwide Friday at another transitional moment in Hollywood

The Independent UK

The Hunger Games franchise could continue with one big caveat, say prequel creators

Exclusive: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director and producer tell GamesRadar+ what the future of The Hunger Games franchise might look like

Total Film

Will There Be More Hunger Games? 'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' Director “Would Return to Direct More”

Eight years after he closed the door on The Hunger Games with 'Mockingjay – Part 2,' director Francis Lawrence is back.

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Total Film

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director on making the prequel grittier than its predecessors

Music and mayhem as the Games get off to brutal beginnings…

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Critics Have Seen The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes, See What They’re Saying About The Dystopian Prequel

Critics have weighed in on The Hunger Games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, starring Tom Blyth and Rachel Zegler.

The Independent UK

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes review – A limp prequel that dilutes its biggest villain

This origin story for Donald Sutherland’s monstrous bad guy from the original films casts Rachel Zegler as a dystopian theatre-kid and squanders the anger of novelist Suzanne Collins’s source material

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The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Review: The Most Brutal Hunger Games Movie Yet, But It Can't Escape Some Textbook Prequel Traps

If you push the tired prequel tropes aside, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a triumphant comeback for The Hunger Games franchise that ups the stakes from the original films and dives deeper into the storytelling from a welcome new angle.

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The Guardian - UK

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes review – back to an empty future

Prequel to the hit teen dystopia recruits Rachel Zegler and Jason Schwartzman to labour over IP that is now starved of inspiration

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The Hunger Games Author Opens Up About Watching The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes Despite Being 'Nervous' To See It

Suzanne Collins, who wrote the novel for Hunger Games prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, has seen the new movie.

Cinemablend

Hunger Games Producer Shares Blunt Thoughts On Potential Of Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen Return, And I Couldn’t Agree More

Could we see Katniss return to the Hunger Games on the big screen?

Evening Standard

Hunger Games: loved the film? Now it's becoming a major London stage show

The blockbuster franchise will be adapted by Olivier Award-wining playwright Conor McPherson

The Independent UK

The Hunger Games stage adaptation coming to the West End

Script is being written by Olivier-winning playwright Conor McPherson

The Independent UK

The heartbreaking reason for The Hunger Games prequel protagonist’s name

Rachel Zegler stars as Lucy Gray Baird in forthcoming prequel, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’

Pedestrian.tv

The Hunger Games Director Is Copping It From The Fandom For Labelling Katniss As ‘Asexual’

Director Francis Lawrence referred to Rachel Zegler’s character in the prequel as the “anti-Katniss.”

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