Katniss Everdeen returns home in the latest teaser trailer for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1...only there's not much left of it.
The movie is the third film in the hit dystopian sci-fi series, which is based on Suzanne Collins' popular novels. Jennifer Lawrence reprises her role as the brunette teen heroine, while Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth star again as her love interests, Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne. The new trailer, released on Wednesday, features Lorde's "Yellow Flicker Beat," the lead single on the movie's soundtrack.
(Spoiler alert!)
In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1, President Snow (Donald Sutherland) views Katniss as public enemy No. 1 due to her defiant act in the first Hunger Games competition, an annual event in which teen and pre-teen "tributes" are chosen from 12 districts to fight to the death—and be filmed doing it for TV. The heroine has inspired a rebellion and is dubbed by supporters as a "mockingjay."
Her main goal is to kill the evil leader and save fellow victor Peeta. He has been taken prisoner in the Capitol, whose forces have destroyed District 12, her home, as was revealed in the previous Hunger Games installment, Catching Fire.
The trailer shows that little remains of it following bombings by the Capitol. Everdeen gazes in horror at the sight before her.
Most structures, including the Hall of Justice, where tributes are taken before the annual competition and where victors typically address the people, have been reduced to smoldering rubble.
The smoke provides a menacing welcome as a figure is seen passing through the open iron gate to District 12's Victor's Village, the small, wealthy neighborhood that houses Hunger Games winners. Inside a building, one of the few left intact, is a table with a vase full of dead flowers, save for a single, fresh white rose bud.
Oh, but who is responsible for this? Readers of The Hunger Games novels, on which the films are based, know that he is truly malevolent and that his choice of flower is no coincidence. Moreover, it symbolizes a dangerous message.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 also stars returning actors Woody Harrelson as the heroine's mentor Haymitch Abernathy, Lenny Kravitz as her stylist, Cinna, Elizabeth Banks, who plays her and Peeta's Hunger Games adviser Effie Trinket, and Sam Claflin and Jena Malone, who reprise their roles as former Hunger Games victors Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason. The late Philip Seymour Hoffman plays rebellion leader and spy Plutarch Heavensbee.
Julianne Moore makes her debut in the hit series as President Alma Coin, leader of the rebels, who are part of the underground District 13. Natalie Dormer, best known as Margaery Tyrell on HBO's Game of Thrones, plays new character Cressida, a former Capitol employee who joins the rebellion.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 1 is set for release on Nov. 21. The second installment, which also includes most of the main characters, including Hoffman, finished production earlier this year will hit theaters in November 2015.