Some Say Hunger Games Is A Rip Off of Battle Royale, But The King Had The Idea Before Either Of These Books.
The state forces kids into a death match where only one is left standing. Is this the premise of "Hunger Games"? The exact same concept is in Takami's 600-page novel "Battle Royale" published in 1999. There was a little seen Japanese film made of the book twelve years before the "Hunger Games".
This is another case of there being nothing new under the sun. Both of these novels and movies were predated by Stephen King's novella-turned-blockbuster "The Running Man," which was about a reality-television death match run by a totalitarian government in a dystopian future.
The always uncanny Stephen King predicted the future obsession with reality T.V, and we have yet to see just how far this craze will go. As bad as the reality television concepts can be we have yet to see death matches, or children killing each other as entertainment on television. Something worth noting though, the inventor of the Atom Bomb, Leó Szilárd was inspired by the book "War of The Worlds", after reading about an ultimate weapon that could destroy a nation. Fiction can become reality as quickly as the tide changes.
~N. Moore~
Excerpt:
"A description of Koushun Takami's book, published in 1999, makes the similarities with Hunger Games clear. In a near-future dystopia, a despotic government selects teenagers by lottery to participate in the titular competition, in which the youths are thrown into the wilderness with a variety of weapons in order to participate in a televised death match. There are also commercial similarities: Battle Royale, too, made a successful jump to the big screen in a 2000 cult-classic release directed by Kinji Fukasaku. (Quentin Tarantino called it his "favorite movie of the last 20 years.")
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