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Since July of 2012, CW has talked about an American re-telling of the Japanese story, "Battle Royale". But lately, it seems like Koushun Takami's survival epic won't get an adaptation anytime soon.
[Like anything international, high schoolers fighting to the death proves too much for American minds]
“We were not able to do anything. […] We are not planning to do anything with Battle Royale … nothing occurred … there's nothing to talk about … nothing happened.”, said Marc Pedowitz, the President of the CW network, considering that he displayed an interest in the franchise moments prior to the school shootings in Colorado and Connecticut.
Of course bad luck with making a western interpretation wasn't new. In fact, Producer, Roy Lee, were trying to make a film of the same name, but due to the Virginia Tech shooting in 2008, it was halted. After attaining the rights to the movie adaptation of Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games, it was scrapped once again, fearing that fans of both stories would complain about the comparisons between the two. Despite this, there have been plans for a similar series based a book of a similar story.
Battle Royal is by Koushun Takami. A teacher fools his middle school class into going to a remote island to fight untill one is standing. A movie adaptation was made in 2000 starring Tatsuya Fujiwara [Death Note/ Chameleon]. The movie didn't officially make it to North America untill after Hunger Games(movie) was released.
Sources: JEFusion/ Anime News Network
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