Summary
Rachel Zegler has a couple of projects lined up for the near future, among them the movieY2K, which looks way deadlier than herHunger Gamesprequel. Rachel Zegler has been enjoying a successful run on film in recent years. Zegler had a strong film debut when she played María in Steven Spielberg’s musical dramaWest Side Story, and even though her next project,Shazam! Fury of the Gods, wasn’t a success, she quickly recovered when she joined the universe ofThe Hunger Games.
In 2023,theHunger Gamesfranchisewas revived on the big screen withThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, a prequel to the first movie. Set 64 years before the events of the first movie,The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesfollows a young Coriolanus Snow (Tom Blyth) as he mentors District 12’s tribute Lucy Baird (Zegler) for the 10th annual Hunger Games. As expected from aHunger Gamesmovie,The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakeswas packed with suspense, action, and death, but Zegler’s next movie seems to be even deadlier.
Upcoming Rachel Zegler Movies After The Hunger Games
With Rachel Zegler set to star in The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, the actress has several other movies lined up for the future.
Y2K’s First Trailer Didn’t Hold Back
Y2Kis a disaster comedy horror movie based on the Year 2000 problem (a.k.a. Y2K), which led to the belief of a computer-induced apocalypse once the year 2000 arrived.
Rachel Zegler already has one big project coming up with Disney’s live-actionSnow Whiteremake, but before she ventures into that fantasy world, Zegler will visit the horror genre inY2K. Directed by Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut,Y2Kis a disaster comedy horror movie based on the Year 2000 problem (a.k.a. Y2K), a potential computer error related to the formatting and storage of calendar data for dates in and after the year 2000. There was so much misinformation about Y2K in the late 1990s that it led to the belief of a computer-induced apocalypse once the year 2000 arrived.
Y2Ktakes this concept and takes it further and follows Eli (Jaeden Martell) and Danny (Julian Dennison), two outcast friends who crash a high school party on New Year’s Eve 1999 as Eli’s crush, Laura (Zegler), will attend. However, when the clock strikes midnight,Y2K turns out to be real, and party attendees begin to be attacked by homemade robots, VHS players, and more.The first trailer forY2Kshows the type of humor the audience can expect from it, but also the graphic deaths provoked by the Y2K breakdown.
AlthoughThe Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakeswas expected to have many deaths and some shocking and violent scenes, the trailers didn’t include any of these and, instead, focused on the story and the drama in it. If theY2Ktrailer is already showing how brutal (though some of them comedic) its death scenes will be, the final product will surely be even more graphic.
I Lived Through Y2K - The New A24 Movie’s Trailer Gets A Lot Wrong About The Panic & Culture
A24’s Y2K movie looks like it could be fun, but it completely whiffs on the culture of the ’90s and the Y2K bug panic that permeated the end of 1999.
Y2K Can Take Rachel Zegler’s Career To Another Level
Zegler’s performance inThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakeswas one of the movie’s biggest strengths, but her role inY2Kcould take her career a step further. Zegler has already shown her range in drama withWest Side StoryandThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes(and her musical talents in both), butY2Kwill show a different side of her with its blend of comedy and horror.
Y2Kcan also topTheHunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakesin terms of graphic violence and brutality, though the big difference here is the tone of each one. Rachel Zegler’s upcoming projects are all very different from each other, but they will show different sides of her and more of her acting range.
Y2K
On the last night of 1999, two high school juniors crash a New Years Eve party, only to find themselves fighting for their lives in this dial-up disaster comedy.
