Cult director Quentin Tarantino doesn’t mince his words when it comes to expressing his enthusiasm or displeasure with other films. It sometimes happens that he loves films that tear others apart and verbally destroys celebrated works. So Tarantino also slammed Jennifer Lawrence’s biggest hit: The Hunger Games.
Quentin Tarantino slams Jennifer Lawrence’s The Hunger Games as a bad copy
The reason for the dislike of the Hunger Games franchise starring Jennifer Lawrence can be found in Tarantino’s favorite film of the past 20 years: The Filmmaker Adores battle royale from the year 2000 – a bloody action dystopia in which students must fight to the death.
Suzanne Collins’ first tribute from the hunger novel Deadly Games* also sent several teenagers into a deadly arena, but was not released until 2008. The film adaptation, starring Jennifer Lawrence, was released in 2012. This led Quentin Tarantino to state:
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Quentin Tarantino
I’m a big fan of the Japanese movie Battle Royale that The Hunger Games was based on. well, Hunger Games only stole it as a knock-off. Directing Battle Royale would have been great.
How fitting that Quentin Tarantino is preparing his latest film, The Movie Critic. But did the Hunger Games series really take its story from Battle Royale?
Tarantino’s Claim: Did Hunger Games Really Steal From Battle Royale?
That children are forced by society to kill one another sounds like an idea that, while radical, is not necessarily unique. The question of whether The Hunger Games is just a copy of Battle Royale will certainly boil up again with the Hunger Games prequel The Hunger Games – The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, which will be launched shortly and show the 10th Hunger Games.
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Jennifer Lawrence in The Hunger Games
Template author Suzanne Collins, however, denied the accusation that she stole the idea for her hit novels from Japanese author Koushun Takami, who published his controversial book Battle Royale in 1999:
I had never heard of this book or its author beforebefore I start my novel [Die Tribute von Panem] submitted.
Incidentally, Battle Royale was temporarily indicated as a bloody school class survival fight, but is now available:
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