Viola Davis is ready to star in The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The Academy Award-winning actress will painting Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the pinnacle gamemaker of the tenth annual Starvation Video games.
Alongside Davis, the forged for this widespread movie franchise prequel will function Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Josh Andrés Rivera, and Hunter Schafer.
“The Starvation Video games movies have all the time been elevated by their distinctive casting, and we’re thrilled to be persevering with that custom with Viola Davis as Volumnia Gaul,” Lionsgate Movement Image Group President Nathan Kahane stated in a Deadline report. “Her formidable and highly effective presence will add layers of complexity and menace to this story.”
Francis Lawrence will direct the movie, in addition to function producer alongside Brad Simpson and Nina Jacobson. Suzanne Collins – writer of The Starvation Video games – will govt produce with Tim Palen.
“Dr. Gaul is as merciless as she is inventive and as fearsome as she is formidable,” Lawrence stated. “Snow’s savvy as a political operator develops in no small half resulting from his experiences together with her because the video games’ most commanding determine.”
Davis, who’s represented by CAA, Lasher Group and Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, will star within the forthcoming movie The Girl King, directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes premieres in theaters globally on November 17, 2023.
