Tom Blyth’s Coriolanus Snow is tasked with mentoring District 12’s tribute Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) to keep her alive as she battles tough conditions and worthy opponents in the trailer of the upcoming American dystopian action film The Hunger Games - The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

Dropped by Lionsgate Movies on Wednesday, the two-minute-45-second-long trailer follows the 10th annual Hunger Games, a spectacle wherein district children are forced to fight till death as punishment for the insurrection the districts waged against the Capitol during the first civil war.

We see a young Coriolanus Snow, who is striving to revive his family’s legacy, mentoring Rachel Zegler’s Lucy — the District 12 female tribute who is not exactly the cream of the crop — as he eyes the Plinth Prize, a cash reward awarded to the mentor whose tribute emerges victorious. When Lucy captures the country’s attention with a song at the Reaping, Snow realises they just might have a shot at winning.

Watch the trailer here:

Based on Suzanne Collins’ prequel novel of the same name, the upcoming film is helmed by the Hunger Games franchise director Francis Lawrence. Michael Lesslie wrote the screenplay, while Collins, Tim Palen and Jim Miller are attached to the project as executive producers alongside producers Brad Simpson, Nina Jacobson and Lawrence.

The cast also includes Viola Davis, Fionnula Flanagan, Flora Li Thiemann, Honor Gillies, Eike Onyambu, Konstantin Taffet, Burn Gorman, Scott Folan, Carl Spencer, Michael Greco, Daniela Grubert, Kjell Brutscheidt, Ashley Liao, Sofia Sanchez, Josh Andres Rivera, Mackenzie Lansing, Lilly Maria Cooper, Zoe Renee, Max Raphael, Vaughan Reilly, Dakota Shapiro, Nick Benson and George Somner.

The Hunger Games - The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is set to arrive in theaters on November 17.