Rachel Zegler, Luna Steeples, Nina Jacobson, Cooper Dillon, Lucas Wilson
There's a new behind the scenes image from the filming of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds And Snakes plus a great interview with producer Nina Jacobson in Polygon. Spoilers for The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes to follow.
Jacobson says there was never a chance that Lionsgate would reboot the series or do endless sequels just to cash in. “You could have gone with a fan favorite — Let’s do Haymitch’s story! Or do Finnick’s games! — but that would be doing it to do it,” Jacobson tells Polygon. “If Suzanne Collins had a story in this world, with something she wanted to talk about, something to explore, then great. But if not, better to leave a franchise as something people feel fondly about rather than crank out a sequel for the sake of a sequel.”
Jacobson never spoke to Collins while Songbirds and Snakes was in development, but after reading the book, she had no hesitation about making another. “Suzanne, the originator and North Star of everything that we try to do with these books, she doesn’t write just to make money,” Jacobson says. “She writes when she has something to say.”
Author Suzanne Collins
Jacobson talked at length with Collins about Enlightenment thinkers like John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau as she devised a modern cinematic spectacle that could still have a philosophical heart.
“Are we fundamentally good if left to our own devices? Are we fundamentally bad, and need the state to keep us in check or we’ll destroy each other? These ideas about how people perceive each other, and the government, and what they need based on those perceptions, felt so incredibly timely. And to do it through Coriolanus Snow, somebody we’ve all spent the last four movies hating, felt like a particularly interesting and original approach,” she says.
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