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Everything You Need to Know About the Upcoming ‘Hunger Games’ Prequel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. It's been seven years
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  Speaker 1: since Catness Everdeen shot her last arrow in the Hunger
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  Speaker 1: Games movies, but the franchise is coming back to the
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  Speaker 1: big screen, though the story will take place years before
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  Speaker 1: Catness was born. A teaser from an upcoming Hunger Games
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  Speaker 1: movie called The Ballot of Songbirds and Snakes was just
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  Speaker 1: played at CinemaCon, though this preview featured no actors or
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  Speaker 1: footage from the actual project, since it's you had to
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  Speaker 1: be cast, just icy tree branches and the text reading
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  Speaker 1: the world will discover who is a songbird and who
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  Speaker 1: is a snake. The script will be based on Suzanne
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  Speaker 1: Collins prequel novel of the same name, released in twenty
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  Speaker 1: that takes place during the tenth Hunger Games. Keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind that Catness competed in the seventy four installment, so
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  Speaker 1: it's quite a bit earlier. But a younger version of
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  Speaker 1: a key character is heavily featured in the prequel, Corey
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  Speaker 1: Elanus Snow, who eventually becomes the evil President played by
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  Speaker 1: Donald Sutherland in the Hunger Game. Look for The Ballot
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  Speaker 1: of songbirden Snakes held by a regional Hunger Games director
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  Speaker 1: Francis Lawrence November. That's direct from Hollywood.