‘The Hunger Games’ Prequel Gets SAG-AFTRA Interim Agreement Amid Strike – The Hollywood Reporter

Tom Blythe as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Ziegler as Lucy Graybird in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.

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Prequel coming in hunger Games The franchise has received a tentative agreement from SAG-AFTRA ahead of its release next month.

This means that The Hunger Games: Song of Songbirds and Snakes, the Lionsgate film could hit theaters on November 17, and its on-screen talent could promote the film in the coming weeks. Francis Lawrence directs a cast that includes Rachel Ziegler, Tom Blythe, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schaeffer, Jason Schwartzman, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Viola Davis.

The film qualifies because Lionsgate is not part of the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, which is currently engaged in negotiations with SAG-AFTRA amid the actors’ strike.

Other recent projects to receive a temporary agreement for advertising purposes include Bleecker Street’s project What happens later?,A24 Priscilla And Iron claw,neon Ferrari And the party movie Taylor Swift: Tour for the Ages.

Song of songbirds and snakes The film is based on the novel of the same name by Suzanne Collins, and contains a script by Michael Leslie and Michael Arndt. Collins, Jim Miller, Tim Palin and Mika Saito serve as executive producers.

The original four films hunger Games The series, starring Jennifer Lawrence, concluded in 2015 with the second Mockingjay film. Song of songbirds and snakes One star-studded feature was that dates would not be changed amid the strike, preventing actors from promoting their work.

SAG-AFTRA chief negotiator Duncan Crabtree-Ireland said Hollywood Reporter Last month, temporary agreements were considered pivotal for the union during the strike.

“When we sign a temporary agreement with a producer, that is a full collective bargaining agreement,” Crabtree-Ireland said at the time. “So once a producer closes that deal, we want his project to be successful, and we want him to be able to promote it. We want the actors to go out and do all the things they would normally do in relation to a project like this.”