Quentin Tarantino Slams ‘Hunger Games’ for Ripping Off ‘Battle Royale’

Quentin Tarantino has some robust opinions concerning the billion-dollar-grossing Hunger Games franchise.

During a latest interview on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker accused The Hunger Games of ripping off the 2000 Japanese movie Battle Royale. Tarantino has recurrently positioned the film, which was primarily based on writer Koushun Takami’s 1999 novel of the identical title, on his favourite motion pictures checklist.

“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns,” he mentioned. “They just ripped off the fuckin’ book. Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Japanese movie called Battle Royale so the stupid book critics never called her on it. They talked about how it was the most original fuckin’ thing they’d ever read. As soon as the film critics saw the film, they said, ‘What the fuck? This is just Battle Royale except PG!’”

The similarities between the 2 tales have lengthy been in contrast because the first Hunger Games installment, led by Jennifer Lawrence, dropped in 2012.

Battle Royale was set in a dystopian future in Japan and adopted a bunch of junior excessive college students who’re compelled by a totalitarian authorities to battle to the loss of life in a contest till just one stays. The Hunger Games can be a dystopian sequence, which facilities on a televised competitors by which two teenagers from every of the twelve districts within the fictional nation of Panem are chosen at random to battle to the loss of life.

Collins, who wrote The Hunger Games books, has beforehand denied that her sequence was primarily based on Battle Royale. “I had never heard of that book or that author until my book was turned in,” she advised The New York Times in 2011. “At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I asked my editor if I should read it. He said, ‘No, I don’t want that world in your head. Just continue with what you’re doing.’”

After Battle Royale was launched in 2000, a sequel adopted in 2003 referred to as Battle Royale II: Requiem. As for The Hunger Games, 5 movies have been launched within the franchise because the first installment in 2012, with a sixth one, Sunrise on the Reaping, set to his theaters in 2026.