'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Trailer: Katniss Is Ready to Fight Capitol

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Brian Anthony Hernandez
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'Hunger Games: Mockingjay' Trailer: Katniss Is Ready to Fight Capitol
Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1. Credit: Lionsgate

The late Philip Seymour Hoffman, portraying the rebellious Hunger Games gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee, opens the first official Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1 teaser trailer with stern advice for District 13's President Coin (played by Julianne Moore).

"Listen to me. No one else can do this but [Katniss]," Heavensbee tells Coin. "We need to unite these people out there. She is the face of this rebellion. They'll follow her."

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The video, which shows much more action than the two previous teasers starring Panem President Snow that Lionsgate released this summer, finally reintroduces Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence). Katniss had been absent from the two Snow-centric teasers.

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Jennifer Lawrence stars as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 1. Credit: Lionsgate

The new movie footage debuted at Comic-Con before being posted on YouTube.

Snow continues to warn his nation that resisting the Capitol's orders will not end well for rebels. Peeta (Josh Hutcherson), who was captured along with Johanna and Enobaria during the chaotic Quarter Quell rescue plan while Katniss and company escaped, will play a pivotal role as Snow has brainwashed him with tracker jacker venom to hate Katniss.

This film, due out Nov. 21, picks up where Catching Fire left off, with Katniss making a new home in District 13 after finding out her District 12 was burnt to the ground after she and her supporters rebelled against the Capitol.

Mockingjay parts one and two -- the third and fourth films in the popular franchise -- will both feature the late Hoffman, who nearly finished shooting all of his scenes before he died in February. The second installment of Mockingjay will come out in November 2015.

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