James Newton Howard (King Kong, Maleficent, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, The Sixth Sense, Signs) is set to score the upcoming film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ novel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. The movie, which serves as a prequel to The Hunger Games series, is directed by Francis Lawrence and stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Josh Andrés Rivera, Hunter Schafer, Jason Schwartzman Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, Athena Strates, Dimitri Abold, Dakota Shapiro, George Somner and Vaughan Reilly.