Quentin Tarantino recently appeared on Bret Easton Ellis’s podcast. In their conversation the acclaimed Hollywood director revealed his list of twenty favorite films — unsurprisingly including Battle Royale — and reiterated his long-standing admiration for Japanese cinema.
While talking about the film, Tarantino again brought up Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games novels, which later became a major franchise. The filmmaker characterized Collins’s work as plagiarism, saying she avoided legal action largely because few people bothered to read the original novel, Battle Royale.
It’s worth noting that Tarantino is not the only person to have observed the obvious similarities between the two books. Still, with each installment Collins’s series broadens and increasingly departs from Battle Royale’s original storyline.
