There is just less than a month to go now until Katniss Everdeen and co. take the cinematic stage for the beginning of the end, or The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, as it prefers to be known. That means it must be time for what is being described as the final trailer for the movie, available for your viewing needs below.
As the story continues, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) has been recruited to lead the rebel forces against those of President Snow (Donald Sutherland), working alongside the likes of Gale (Liam Hemsworth), Haymitch (Woody Harrelson), Beetee (Jeffrey Wright), Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman, in what will be one of his final performances) and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore). Katniss has now been brought to District 13, long thought destroyed and written out of Panem history but, it emerges, a power to be reckoned with.
But even as the Districts start to make progress against the Capitol’s armies, Snow delivers a nasty propaganda surprise: Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) is alive and apparently aligned with the Capitol in asking the rebels to stop fighting. Naturally, Katniss wants to rescue her friend – but at what cost?
The trailer recycles some of the footage from the most recent TV spot, but has our heroine delivering a tough message to President Snow: “If we burn, you burn with us…” Sick burn!
With Francis Lawrence directing, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 is out on November 21. And Katniss is gracing the cover of the latest **Empire, out Thursday and featuring much, much more about the movie.