--- description: You love this trailer. Real or not real? title: The Hunger Games Mockingjay Trailer: President Snow's Panem Address image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99d45605ee44d6f2/69869924adae44cbd4543dbc/hunger-games-trailer.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch the Super Creepy First Teaser for the Next _Hunger Games_ Movie  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 25, 2014 1:43 PM CUT  Lionsgate  by [Lily Rothman](/author/lily-rothman/)  ## Lily Rothman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Rothman is managing editor at TIME. Jun 25, 2014 1:43 PM CUT The first hint that something’s not exactly honest about this “Capitol TV” spot: President Snow’s insistence that Panem has known only peace. Then again, any _Hunger Games_ fan won’t be surprised that everyone’s least favorite fictional world leader is acting creepy. Anyone who’s seen the first two _Hunger Games_ movies knows it’s far from true that the region is a peaceful one—but as Lionsgate ramps up the countdown to _Mockingjay Part 1_, the penultimate installment, the studio is leaning hard on the propaganda angle, which they’ve also used for the [posters](http://time.com/2917454/the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-i-posters/ "undefined"). And it’s easy to see why that’s the teaser format of choice: even though the PSA-style spot starring President Snow is all shiny and white, the promise of peace also contains a threat, a not-so-veiled indication of what will happen to those who don’t go along with the plan. (Not-so-veiled = “It is you who will bleed.”) Anticipation for the movie is already high, and the stakes are being raised months in advance, even without a glimpse of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss. And then there’s Peeta. His fate was left unsettled at the end of _Catching Fire—_Katniss was rescued and on her way to District 13 without him—and it’s more clear than ever that his life and loyalty hangs in the balance. Panem today, Panem tomorrow, Panem forever and Panem in theaters on Nov. 21, 2014. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2920906/hunger-games-mockingjay-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2920906/hunger-games-mockingjay-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch the Super Creepy First Teaser for the Next Hunger Games Movie","datePublished":"2014-06-25T13:43:47.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:36:42.801Z","description":"You love this trailer. Real or not real?","url":"https://time.com/2920906/hunger-games-mockingjay-trailer/","keywords":["movies","Hunger Games","Jennifer Lawrence","The Hunger Games","Trailer","Trailers","Mockingjay"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99d45605ee44d6f2/69869924adae44cbd4543dbc/hunger-games-trailer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Lily Rothman","jobTitle":"Rothman is managing editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/lily-rothman/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt99d45605ee44d6f2/69869924adae44cbd4543dbc/hunger-games-trailer.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hunger Games Trailer","caption":"Hunger Games Trailer","creditText":"Lionsgate","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2920906/hunger-games-mockingjay-trailer/","name":"Watch the Super Creepy First Teaser for the Next Hunger Games Movie"}}]}] ```