Did The Hunger Games Ruin the Chances of a Battle Royale Remake?

Ohhh those Japanese have quite an imagination.

The Hunger Games never ruin the chances of a Battle Royale Remake. the truth is Hollywood would never do a movie about kids killing each other. plus Columbine High School massacre plus other school shooting sort of stop the idea of doing a Battle Royale Remake.

@mctrinket

The Hunger Games in the movie starring 20 something instead of younger people also The Hunger Games is going to be PG-13.

no way in hell hollywood would half of it

I've read The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, and am reading Mockingjay. It's very clear that the influence from BR is more than coincedental. People who say BR was influenced in turn by Lord of the Flies have a tenuous argument, as in that story it's not the children being FORCED to kill one another, more more of the devolution of children since they are essentially-as a thesis of the book and in reality-just short of animals. Sure, The Hunger Games are great books (my dislike of first-person present tense story-telling aside), but to say they are not directly influenced by BR is shortsighted. Yes, HG delves into a larger world beyond the competition, but a totalitarian government creating a game where children as young as 14 and as old as 18 are forced to a specific (rigged) location, monitored, unable to leave, given weapons,and then told to murder one another while the main characters are a male and female is COMPLETELY Battle Royale. Again, I'm not saying The Hunger Games aren't great, I'm not saying they don't tell different stories-in the end-I'm saying one is CLEARLY VERY influenced by the other. Ripped off? No, that would imply that all is the same.

I am not saying that Hunger Games does not share similarities to Battle Royale, because they obviously do.

But, Hunger Games does bring in a larger storyline, and a larger conflict over all.
As @KamCannon said. I just got done reading The Lord of the Flies, and that shares similarities to Battle Royale as well. It is not a rip off, they are just similar, and share similar stories. It happens all the time. Lets not dwell on these 2 movies.

Both have multiple differences, but share similarities.

Why call something "shit" when you have only heard the synopsis and a trailer? Read the books, and learn about the world that is being written.

battle royale is shit hot one of my favorite japanese movies,tarantino's favorite movie of the decade.

For those who have read the Battle Royale and say Hunger Games share similar stories, you could say that Stephen King wrote The Long Walk which is similar story to both and King even stated in his review, which was stellar, that the story used the "TV badlands" that were used in Battle Royale and his stories Running Man and The Long Walk. Plus Battle Royale wasn't the first story to introduce this type of genre with kids being forced to fight each other to the death.

Battle Royale was also a military experiment with anonymous players and the Hunger Games goes beyond that as a tool for government control over its population making the population care for the contestants than having them kill each other off. The actual social commentary and psychological commentary is different for both even though they are both excellent stories.

Battle Royale was sweet, the sequel wasn't as good unfortunatly. I need to watch it again, it was funny to me as well.

The book is phenomenal. The movie is built off of a shoe-string budget.
I don't dislike the movie (the acting though, yes), because all things considered, it is extremely faithful to a book that was published only a year beforehand.

Hunger Games is a similar beast, but I'm sure it does have more to offer.

I'm really glad I'm not the only one who made this connection. I thought I was going out of my mind when the 'Hunger Game' thing started. I kept saying, "This sounds A LOT like 'Battle Royale'".

Well think about it. If you consider Hunger Games to be a mixture of Running Man, Death Race, Battle Royale, Rollerball, etc... then it has the benefit of learning from these influences, picking out the bad, and thriving.

Consider this: the best actor of Batoru Rowaiaru is Takeshi Kitano, a seasoned veteran. Of the students, only Chiaki Kuriyama and Tatsuya Fujiwara really have careers, and they really aren't worth mentioning.
Hunger Games stars Jennifer Lawrence (First Class), Stanley Tucci (Captain America), Elizabeth Banks (Spider-man) who looks like she could give you nightmares, and then of course, Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland. Actors don't always make the movie of course, but if you consider it a "shameless ripoff of Battle Royale" then I'm sure that's a cast worth looking forward to.

On Battle Royale, I loved the book. The fights are written so meticulously, and that clip of Takako killing Kazushi was viciously drawn out as ice pick vs nunchucks. Shuya was also a huge (borderline obsessive) fan of Bruce Springsteen. The movie followed it well, no question about that. Not everything could be adapted perfectly with the budget the father-son directors had to work with, and I imagine getting "Born to Run" to play at the credits would've cost about half the production. I consider it an effort.

You know, for guys like me that never were and never will be "book readers", all they've got to sell me their movie IS the synopsis AND especially the trailer. And from what i've seen, the trailer's not blowing my skirt up and the synopsis is a shitty, overused concept. Call me a hater but this is just my opinion. I've never been a fan of people being thrown into a pile, somewhere inaccessible, and being forced to fight to the death, no matter the circumstances. The only film i've been able to stomach was Arnold's Running Man because the characters were colorful given they were on a game show and had to entertain the masses, and Mortal Kombat gets a pass because i was a fan of actually playing the game. But that was IT. They'll be lucky if they ever get me to watch The Hunger Games on tv, let alone actually rent it.

There is so much more to the Hunger Games than just the battle in the arena, that part of the story is only about 1/3 of the book the rest character building and the training time