


According to Zegler, that little Easter Egg reference was a total ad-lib, harkening back to a pivotal moment from the original movies - and it sets the tone for events to come. Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom 22 likes Like A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. 'And finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin. At one point in the trailer, Zegler-as-Lucy curtseys to the powers that be at the reaping, just as Katniss sarcastically does during her tenure in the Games, during the infamous shooting the apple scene. I bear a hell within me,' Black Tom growled. Hunger Games fans couldn't help but notice a few parallels between Zegler's Lucy and Jennifer Lawrence's beloved Katniss Everdeen, heroine of the original books and movies. The trailer made its debut at CinemaCon 2023 in Las Vegas earlier this week before debuting to the public on April 27. Now, the official trailer for the film adaptation, starring Tom Blyth as Snow and West Side Story star Rachel Zegler as District 12 tribute (and musician) Lucy Gray Baird, is here to re-ignite your Hunger Games obsession. Are you ready to head back to Panem? The last Hunger Games movie, Mockingjay: Part 2, hit theaters in 2015, but author Suzanne Collins revisited President Coriolanus Snow for the 2020 prequel novel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
