"Battle Royale” Japanese Movie Poster
Due to the success of The Hunger Games (2012), which was similar to – and – helped popularize Kinji Fukasaku’s Battle Royale (2000) in America, The CW Network is currently in discussion to remake Battle Royale as an English-language TV series. If a deal is reached, the TV series will source off Koushun Takami’s original novel and the story will be expanded into a series of hour long episodes.
LA Times reports: When Hunger Games came out in the spring, it effectively killed any chances of a Royale film; citing the similarities, producers said at the time that no studio would want to risk looking like copycats. This explains why they’re remaking it as a TV series instead of a film. For for the full article, visit LA Times.
Updates: EW.com reports that Mark Pedowitz, The CW’s entertainment president, loves the idea of doing a Battle Royale TV show. But when Pedowitz is questioned about bringing Battle Royale’s brutal content to a broadcast network, he replies: “We’re not planning to do anything that we cannot get on the air”.
