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Quentin Tarantino Says 'The Hunger Games' 'Ripped Off' This Controversial Cult Classic
Tarantino claims The Hunger Games copied Battle Royale’s core premise and questions why no legal action was taken against Suzanne Collins, highlighting the films’ similar plots.
- On The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Quentin Tarantino accused The Hunger Games of ripping off Battle Royale while unveiling his number 20-11 picks and will reveal his top 10 next episode.
- Quentin Tarantino saw Battle Royale early as a friend of director Kinji Fukasaku and attended a midnight Seattle Film Festival screening three months later, calling it one of the most exciting.
- Both films feature teenagers forced to fight to the death in dystopian contests, a plot critics and observers have compared since The Hunger Games debuted in 2012.
- Responding to claims, Collins said she had not known of Battle Royale until her manuscript was finished, and Entertainment Weekly reached out to her representatives after Tarantino's remarks.
- With the franchise now at five films, Quentin Tarantino's repeated promotion of Battle Royale could reignite debate over originality as Sunrise on the Reaping premieres next year.
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Quentin Tarantino has rekindled the debate. The filmmaker pointed out obvious similarities between two stories and claimed that one of them is a direct copy of the other. During a recent episode of The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast, Pulp Fiction director accused Suzanne Collins of having taken the premise of Battle Royale, Koushun Takami’s original novel published in 1999 that poses a similar dystopian competition among young people, to create his l…
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