Olivia Rodrigo releases “Can’t Catch Me Now” music video for “The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes” soundtrack.

Olivia Rodrigo contributes her music to the soundtrack of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes with “Can’t Catch Me Now.”

The High School Musical: The Musical: The Series alum attended the film’s premiere in LA when her music video was also released.

The “Can’t Catch Me Now” video was directed by award-winning director Leonn Ward of RSA’s Black Dog Films. This is Rodrigo’s first contribution to a film soundtrack, a song she co-wrote with producer Daniel Nigro, who worked with the singer-songwriter on her album. Waste.

Rodrigo’s song will be part of the 17-track album, which will be released on November 17 and also features songs from star Rachel Zegler, Flatland Cavalry, Molly Tuttle, Billy Strings, Sierra Ferrell, Bella White and Charles Godwin.

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a forerunner of The Hunger Games saga and takes place 64 years before Katniss Everdeen volunteered to pay tribute, and decades before Coriolanus Snow became the tyrannical president of Panem.

In addition to Zegler, Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman and Viola Davis star.

According to the movie’s official description, the film follows “a young Coriolanus (Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once proud Snow family who have fallen from grace in a post-war capital.” With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from impoverished District 12.

When Lucy Gray’s charm charms the Hunger Games audience: “Snow sees an opportunity to change her destiny. With everything he’s worked for on the line, Snow teams up with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. Battling his instincts for good and evil, Snow begins a race against time to survive and discover whether he will eventually become a songbird or a snake.

Directed by Francis Lawrence from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, based on the novel by Suzanne Collins and produced by Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson and Francis Lawrence.

Watch Olivia Rodrigo’s music video for “Can’t Catch Me Now” below.