This Hunger Games Prequel Quietly Revealed Why Snow Allowed Katniss and Peeta To Win
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes provides insight into why President Snow allowed Katniss and Peeta to both emerge as winners in The Hunger Games.
Years after the films took the world by storm, the Hunger Games franchise is experiencing a resurgence and part of that includes illuminating prequels. With the newest book, Sunrise on the Reaping, recently released and the adaptation of it already in the works, fans are once again visiting Panem, but after 2023's The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the original films already have more context. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes focuses on the villain, Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as a young man. The prequel shows the audience how he formed his warped worldview, which he holds decades later as the leader of Panem. Therefore, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes gives insight into one of the enemy's most baffling choices in the original film.
