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Quentin Tarantino has slammed Hunger Games franchise just a rip off japanese cult classic battle Royale,
62 year old pulp Fiction The director has often cited Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 action film as one of his all-time favorite films. The film was based on Koushun Takami’s 1999 novel of the same name.
The first Hunger Games novel, hunger gamesIt was published in 2008 by author Suzanne Collins. It was adapted into a film of the same name in 2012, starting a successful franchise. The sixth film of the series will be released next year.
Speaking in a new interview Bret Easton Ellis PodcastTarantino said: “battle Royale Based on a novel. I don’t understand how the Japanese author hasn’t sued Suzanne Collins for every bullshit she says. They just tore the damn book up!
Both battle Royale And hunger games These are set in dystopian societies where youths have to fight to the death in televised competitions until only one of them is left alive.
kill Bill The director argued that literary critics had overlooked the similarities between the stories, saying: “Idiot book critics are not going to watch a Japanese movie named battle Royale That’s why stupid book reviewers never called him out on it. He talked about how it was the most original bullshit he’d ever read. As soon as film critics saw the film, they said, ‘What the fuck?’ this is just battle Royale Except PG!”
Collins has previously denied being inspired by Takami’s novel or Fukasaku’s film adaptation.
in an interview with the new York Times In 2011, the best-selling author said: “I had never heard of that book or that author until my book came out. At the time, 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. Keep doing what you’re doing.'”
The original four-part Hunger Games series It ran from 2012 to 2015, grossing over $3.3 billion worldwide. In 2023, a prequel starring Tom Blythe and Rachel Ziegler, Tales of songbirds and snakes, hit theaters, grossing over $300 million.
The sequel to that prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise at the ReapingIs Scheduled to release on November 20, 2026.
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The new film will focus on Haymitch Abernathy, mentor to the original film’s protagonist Katniss Everdeen, played by Jennifer Lawrence.