How The Hunger Games Prequel’s Protagonist Is "The Anti-Katniss" Explained By Director

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes director Francis Lawrence explains what makes the new female protagonist Lucy Gray Baird so different from Katniss Everdeen, even going as far as to call her the “anti-Katniss.” Based on Suzanne Collins’s popular novel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place 64 years before the events of the original Hunger Games trilogy, telling the story of young Coriolanus Snow and his journey to becoming a ruthless autocrat and eventual president of Panem. In the prequel, Snow forms a relationship with Lucy, a young District 12 tribute competing in the 10th Hunger Games.