Netflix removes the Hunger Games movies, just weeks before the prequel movie is released
Nov. 1, 2023The franchise is no longer streaming on Netflix
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As of today (November 1), the Hunger Games movies have been removed from Netflix – so if you were planning a re-watch ahead of the prequel movie’s release later this month, we’re afraid you’re too late.
Set in a dystopian future version of the US called Panem, each year one boy and one girl from each of the nation’s districts must take part in the annual Hunger Games as punishment for past uprisings against the nation’s ruling Capitol. The Games are a televised competition in which the adolescent “tributes” must fight to the death.
The prequel movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is due to hit cinemas in a couple of weeks. Based on Suzanne Collins' novel of the same name and set over 60 years before the first Hunger Games book, the film follows an 18-year-old from the Capitol (Tom Blyth) – who would later go on to become President Snow (played by Donald Sutherland in the original movies). He’s tasked with mentoring one of the Games' tributes from District 12, Lucy Gray Baird (Zegler), but as their fates become entwined, things start to get complicated.
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