Lionsgate has finally released the much-awaited trailer of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1." The teaser gives fans a glimpse of the challenges that reluctant hero Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence, has to face in the third installment of "The Hunger Games" franchise.
"Miss Everdeen, it's the things we love most... that destroy us," says President Snow (Donald Sutherland) in the teaser trailer.
In a span of less than two minutes, fans can see how Katniss, the once-innocent Panem citizen from District 12, is finally pushed to her limits, making her finally agree to be the face of the rebellion – the Mockingjay.
But reaching that decision does not come easy. In the trailer, fans can watch Katniss inside the supposedly non-existent District 13 – the underground base of the rebellion. There, she is reunited with her friends, Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth), Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), Effie Trinket (Elizabeth Banks), and Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin). She also meets Head Gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beetee Latier (Jeffrey Wright), and President Alma Coin (Julianne Moore), along with documentary filmmakers Cressida (Natalie Dormer) and Messalla (Evan Ross), and military man Boggs (Mahershala Ali).
But Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) was never rescued during the Quarter Quell, and everyone presumes him dead – until the Capitol broadcasts Peeta giving a speech, telling people to not join the rebellion.
Short as it is, the trailer shows how Katniss, after setting down her own set of conditions, agrees to be the Mockingjay. And, along with Gale, her friends, and her new-found determination to rescue Peeta, she dons her militarized costume and starts to take down the Capitol.
Set to roll out in theaters on Nov. 21, the third installment of "The Hunger Games" franchise is bound to draw a great number of fans to movie houses as Katniss Everdeen's story approaches its peak.
