A fan theory about the recently released ‘Hunger Games’ prequel, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’, suggests that Based on the novel by Suzanne Collins, the film has a direct connection to Katniss Evergreen, the protagonist of the 4 existing films of the saga so far. A few months ago, it was rumored that actress Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Katniss, would play her grandmother in ‘The Hunger Games’ prequel and make a cameo in ‘The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’, but that didn’t happen. There’s no cameo, but… is there a grandmother?
The novel takes place decades before the events of the original films, depicting the future President In the tenth Hunger Games, Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blythe) pays tribute to Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Ziegler) as District 12’s mentor., Although the Everdeen family is never mentioned, several references in the story have led fans to speculate that Katniss may be related to one of their characters.
One theory links Katniss to Lucy Grey’s cousin, Maud Ivory Baird, Maud Ivory is about eight or nine years old during ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’, and performed in the group in which Lucy Gray sings. They say of her, “That girl never forgets anything that has a tune.” For example… “The Hanging Tree”, a song played by Lucy Gray’s group and which Katniss learned from her father, Is this a clue?
Maud Ivory loved to sing with the mockingjay birds and Katniss’s father also enjoyed singing with them. When it grew up, It is possible that she fell in love and gave birth to a son who would one day become Katniss’s father.… Why not?
However, this leaves the door open to a more complex theory, which is Lucy Gray is Katniss’s real grandmother, After all, she repeats the gestures and phrases we’ve seen later in Jennifer Lawrence’s character, and sings the same songs as her. He even mentions her name, and names some of the roots by the lake “Katniss”, although no one calls them that. This would be a bombshell, because if Lucy Gray is Katniss’s grandmother, Grandfather can be neither more nor less than… Coriolanus Snow, the villain who made life impossible for Katniss and her family in the Hunger GamesAnd who also threatened to kill his family. Now we will look at the saga films from a different perspective, right?
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