July 27, 2012 
Fans of Kinji Fukasaku‘s cult favourite Battle Royale were incensed when it was revealed a Young Adult author had loosely adopted its premise for some book called The Hunger Games. Now they’re going to be seriously upset.
According to the L.A. Times, the CW – home of Gossip Girl – is in talks with the film’s Hollywood representatives about turning it into an English-language TV show.
The original movie concerned children forced to kill one another on an isolated island, as a means of stemming over-population in dystopian Japan and also as a strategy to end rebellion by young revolutionaries.
There have been numerous attempts to remake the film in America, all to no avail.
Quickflix 
Hey America, get some new ideas of your own.