‘Billy the Kid’ star Tom Blyth to play young President Snow in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel

May the odds be ever in his favor.

Lionsgate has announced that Tom Blyth, who stars in the Epix Western “Billy the Kid” and appeared in HBO’s “The Gilded Age,” will play a young Coriolanus Snow in the upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel, Deadline reported Monday. The role in the original franchise was played by Donald Sutherland.

Based on Suzanne Collins’ dystopian novel, “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” centers on the young, future tyrant known in the original “Hunger Games” books as President Snow.

The teenage Coriolanus, who in the book is from a family that thrived before the Capitol’s war, is made to mentor tribute Lucy Gray Baird from poverty-stricken District 12 — home to “Hunger Games” heroine Katniss Everdeen — in the fictional Panem. He believes the two can succeed together after Lucy, like Katniss decades later, makes a move that captivates Panem.

The movie is currently set to open on Nov. 17, 2023 — just under 8 years to the day after the last installment of the “Hunger Games” films hit theaters.

The original franchise, which adapted Collins’ hit trilogy into four films, first hit the big screen in March 2012 and propelled the career of Jennifer Lawrence, who starred at Katniss.