Bullets 'n' Babes

Variety reports that New Line Cinema has picked up the remake rights to BATTLE ROYALE, Kinji Fukasaku’s notorious shocker from 2000. Based on the novel by Koushun Takami, ROYALE is set in a futuristic Japan where every year, the government randomly selects a ninth-grade class to be taken to a remote island. There they are handed backpacks containing various weapons and instructed that they are to kill each other until only one is left standing; to insure their cooperation, they are outfitted with explosive collars that will detonate if they try to escape—or if more than one student is alive after 72 hours. The film sparked worldwide controversy in the post-Columbine era for its graphic depictions of teenagers slaughtering each other, which prevented it from seeing official U.S. release—making it highly ironic that a Hollywood studio now considers it appropriate for remaking. Roy Lee, the man behind the RING and GRUDGE remakes et al., will produce the new BATTLE with Neal Moritz, who’s also behind the new I AM LEGEND and the redux of MALEFIQUE; no writer or director has been announced. —

The film sparked worldwide controversy in the post-Columbine era for its graphic depictions of teenagers slaughtering each other

Roy Lee, the man behind the RING and GRUDGE remakes et al., will produce the new BATTLE with Neal Moritz

teenagers slaughtering each other

bradavon wrote:They've not got any choice I don't think. You can't copyright an idea afaik. The stupid thing is the last few years has seen a fair few high profile foreign language films just release the original.