Good God No......

[Tom4784]

Battle Royale may be adapted into a television series.

The LA Times reports that an adaptation of the 2000 Japanese thriller, to which The Hunger Games has frequently been compared, is being considered by The CW network.

Battle Royale sees a class of ninth-grade students kidnapped by the Japanese government and forced to compete to the death.

A small-screen adaptation has reportedly been on the cards for years, but according to Japanese law any version must first be approved by original novelist Koushun Takami.

The CW's Hunger Games-esque pilot The Selection - which follows a poor young woman who is chosen by lottery to participate in a competition to become the next queen of a war-torn nation - was not picked up for the network's fall schedule.

For the love of God don't let them do it Koushun.

[Shaun]

the CW network as well D:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

they can hardly make it worse than the movie anything would be an improvement /niall

[Doogle]

CW? Oh dear :joker:

[Roy Mars III]

oh no

[Tom4784]

they can hardly make it worse than the movie anything would be an improvement /niall

Begone you uncultured swine.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

because battle royale is epitome of culture :nono:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

-leaves before i get infracted-

[Shaun]

permaban tbh

[Tom4784]

Battle Royale makes Hunger Games look like a Micheal Bay feature tbf.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

no :bored:

even though i havent seen it yet heh

[Petershaw1984]

Why does this sound so bad? I think its ace

[Niall]

they can hardly make it worse than the movie anything would be an improvement /niall

This. -eagerly anticipates that bad reviews- http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/popcorn.gif

[Shaun]

Battle Royale has 81 on Metacritic, THG has 67 :pipe:
BR is 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. THG is 85% :pipe:
BR has average rating of 7.5 on RT. THG is 7.3 :pipe:

[King Gizzard]

BR doesn't have rabies, HG does :pipe:

[Shaun]

good point :pipe:

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

stop bringing review sites like metacritic into everything :nono:

thats like people bringing up sales and **** to argue that something is better

thg sold more so it is better

[Shaun]

you bring MC up more than I do so shut your ***** mouth

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

thats actually true i should shut up

[Niall]

Battle Royale has 81 on Metacritic, THG has 67 :pipe:
BR is 86% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. THG is 85% :pipe:
BR has average rating of 7.5 on RT. THG is 7.3 :pipe:

But Battle Royale is **** tho

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

:laugh:

[Tom4784]

Why does this sound so bad? I think its ace

The channel that's planning on making it is the same one that gave the world One Tree Hill. They'll end up turning Mitsuko into a bitchy cheerleader, Noriko will be a 'geeky' girl with a quirky personality and the looks of a supermodel and everyone else will look like they've just left the set of an Abercrombie & Fitch photo shoot.

It'll be heinous beyond words and the sooner this abortion of good taste dies the better.

This. -eagerly anticipates that bad reviews- http://www.freesmileys.org/smileys/smiley-basic/popcorn.gif

Battle Royale's got depth, in comparison THG is just a shallow knock off with a bad Twilight style love triangle.

[Smithy]

:O oh no you didn't

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

i seriously think anyone that favors BR over THG is just trying to be hipster :suspect:

[Tom4784]

Maybe we just prefer the original?

[Doogle]

I haven't seen Battle Royale, but since it relates to THG I'd like to tell everyone again about how awful I thought Catching Fire was.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Maybe we just prefer the original?

ITS NOT ORIGINAL THOUGH

everybody acting as though thg is basically a cheap copycat when the whole people being forced to kill for the entertainment of others thing was already done long before battle royale came along

[Tom4784]

ITS NOT ORIGINAL THOUGH

everybody acting as though thg is basically a cheap copycat when the whole people being forced to kill for the entertainment of others thing was already done long before battle royale came along

True, the idea dates back to Roman times but apart from the futuristic setting in THG the storylines are way too similar to be a coincidence.