Hunger Games Finds its Young Coriolanus Snow in Tom Blythe

Long before he was the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow was a teenage boy trying to make it in a war-ravaged city. His family, once an important part of the city’s elite, had long fallen on hard times and were struggling to survive. Coriolanus, determined to make a name for himself and restore his family’s former glory, finds his opportunity in the 10th Annual Hunger Games. He is named a mentor for Lucy Baird, the female tribute from District 12.

Snow’s story, told in Hunger Games: The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds, is coming to the big screen, courtesy of Lionsgate, on November 17, 2023 and now it has found its leading man. Tom Blythe (Billy the Kid) will be playing the young Coriolanus. Based on the book of the same name by Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds details how Snow slowly, meticulously made his way to power. It also reveals how Panem came to be a city of excess and the Hunger Games became the nightmarish spectacle that we know them both to be. Donald Sutherland plays Coriolanus Snow in the original Hunger Games trilogy.

Francis Lawrence, the director for The Ballad of Snakes and Songbirds, and the original Hunger Games films, told People:

Coriolanus Snow is many things – a survivor, a loyal friend, a cutthroat, a kid quick to fall in love, and a young man ambitious to his core. Tom’s take on the character showed us all the complex ambiguities of this young man as he transforms into the tyrant he would become.

Photo: Tom Blythe as Billy the Kid. Courtesy of Box Service Epix Corp Comm.