Jason Schwartzman is the latest to join the ever-swelling cast of the prequel film “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” at Lionsgate.
Schwartzman will play Lucretius ‘Lucky’ Flickerman, host of the tenth Hunger Games and ancestor to Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci).
Schwartzman joins Tom Blyth as a young Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland), Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow, Josh Andres Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, and Rachel Zegler as District 12 girl Lucy Gray Baird.
Set decades before the events of the prior films, Coriolanus Snow is an 18-year-old from a fading lineage assigned to mentor District 12 girl tribute Lucy Gray Baird for the 10th annual Hunger Games.
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 a snake.
Francis Lawrence directs from a script by Michael Lesslie. Nina Jacobson and her partner Brad Simpson are back as producers.
Source: THR
