Rachel Zegler’s New Movie Already Looks Deadlier Than Her $337 Million Hunger Games Prequel

Rachel Zegler has a couple of projects lined up for the near future, among them the movie Y2K, which looks way deadlier than her Hunger Games prequel. 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 drama West 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 of The Hunger Games.

In 2023, the Hunger Games franchise was revived on the big screen with The 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 & Snakes follows 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 a Hunger Games movie, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was packed with suspense, action, and death, but Zegler’s next movie seems to be even deadlier.

Y2K’s Trailer Is More Brutal Than All Of The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes

Y2K’s First Trailer Didn’t Hold Back

Rachel Zegler already has one big project coming up with Disney’s live-action Snow White remake, but before she ventures into that fantasy world, Zegler will visit the horror genre in Y2K. Directed by Kyle Mooney in his directorial debut, Y2K is 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.

Y2K takes 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 for Y2K shows the type of humor the audience can expect from it, but also the graphic deaths provoked by the Y2K breakdown.

Although The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes was 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 the Y2K trailer is already showing how brutal (though some of them comedic) its death scenes will be, the final product will surely be even more graphic.

Rachel Zegler’s Y2K Role Could Top Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes

Y2K Can Take Rachel Zegler’s Career To Another Level

Zegler’s performance in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes was one of the movie’s biggest strengths, but her role in Y2K could take her career a step further. Zegler has already shown her range in drama with West Side Story and The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (and her musical talents in both), but Y2K will show a different side of her with its blend of comedy and horror.

Y2K can also top The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes in 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.