It’s been eight years since the final installment in The Hunger Games movie series dropped in theaters, but later this year we’ll return to Panem with the new prequel film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes. Lionsgate has been teasing this movie for almost a year, but now we finally have the first trailer! Check it out:
See Peter Dinklage in trailer for The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
We’re going back into the deep history of The Hunger Games here. The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes depicts the rise of Coriolanus Snow, aka President Snow from the original Hunger Games movies. Here he’s a young man played by Tom Blyth; he serves as the mentor for District 12 Hunger Games contestant Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler).
The trailer also gives us a good look at Hunger Games founder Casca Highbottom (Peter Dinklage), Head Gamemaker Dr. Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis), Hunger Games talk show host Lucretius ‘Lucky’ Flickerman (Jason Schwartzman), and Coriolanus’ mother Tigris Snow (Hunter Schafter).
I’ve been kind of lukewarm on the idea of returning to The Hunger Games on the big screen, but this trailer looks pretty great. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes premieres in theaters on November 17.
Watch the trailer for Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
Next up, we check in with Optimus Prime and company for the latest Transformers movie. Transformers: Rise of the Beasts released a new trailer this week, and if you’ve ever seen a Transformers movie, you know exactly what you’re getting. Rise of the Beasts will introduce characters from the Transformers: Beast Wars animated series, which means in addition to Transformers turning into cars, they will also turn into gorillas, rhinoceros, cheetahs, and more.
This is the seventh live-action Transformers movie. Rise of the Beasts is out on June 9.
Peacock’s Twisted Metal gets its first teaser
We end with another upcoming video game adaptation: Twisted Metal, a new TV series based on the car combat game starring Anthony Mackie. Peacock is developing this series as a half-hour action comedy show, and that tone comes through strongly in the teaser.
We get our first look at Mackie geared up as motor-mouthed milkman John Doe, as well as a brief glimpse of the insane clown and Twisted Metal mascot Sweet Tooth, who will be played by Will Arnett.
Twisted Metal premieres on Peacock on July 27.
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