battle royale stories

CW exec explains why that Battle Royale series may never happen

Trent Moore
Wednesday, August 1, 2012 - 9:31am
With The Hunger Games lighting up the box office and bookstores everywhere, The CW hopes to get in on the teen survival competition genre sooner rather than later. They're developing two concepts, but neither has made it to the pick-up stage. So what's the latest on the controversial Battle Royale and the delayed pilot The Selection?

Why Hunger Games director won't watch Japan's kids-killing-kids pic

Matthew Jackson
Monday, March 19, 2012 - 5:09pm
The Hunger Games is only beginning its reign as a pop culture phenomenon, and already fans and detractors alike are drawing parallels between the franchise and the 2000 Japanese flick Battle Royale, another film about teens forced to kill each other by an oppressive government. Hunger Games director Gary Ross has heard the comparisons, but he hasn't seen the other flick, and he's got a very good reason why not.

Hunger Games killed that Battle Royale remake we were hoping for

Matthew Jackson
Monday, November 28, 2011 - 6:06pm
We've been waiting for five years to hear something good about the American remake of the bloody Japanese sci-fi classic Battle Royale, but the hits to the project just keep coming. As if development hell weren't enough, it now looks like another fight to the death dystopia picture—The Hunger Games, set to hit theaters next year—has dealt a serious blow to interest in the project.