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Let the games begin!’ screamed the headlines when The Hunger Games arrived in 2012, kickstarting a filmic quadrilogy based on Suzanne Collins’ trilogy of bestselling YA books. But prequel movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes gives us the real start, showing how Panem's Capitol rises from the ashes of war to become a shiny, soaring powerbase, and how the Games progress from rudimentary violence to mass entertainment.
Set 64 years before , we meet an 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as he's assigned to mentor Lucy