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CW Head: Network Is Not Planning to Remake Battle Royale
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Marc Pedowitz, the president of Battle Royale … nothing occurred … there's nothing to talk about … nothing happened." He noted that his earlier interest came before the mass shootings in Colorado and Connecticut.
Pedowitz had acknowledged last July that his network was exploring a remake. However, he added at the time, "All we did was a phone call. We're not planning to do anything that we cannot get on the air." He did also acknowledge the title as one with "a nice cult following" and as "one of the predecessors of a lot of these things we do today."
Battle Royale depicts a Japanese dystopian society in which every year, a middle school class is chosen to engage in a battle to the death with each other. Takami's original novel in North America.
Tokyopop released the entire manga starting in 2003 before shutting down its North American publishing operations.
Producer ABC News that he appreciated his fans' in the Battle Royale/Hunger Games comparisons but that “every novel has something to offer."
The CW is developing a possible second pilot for a separate drama series called The Selection, based on a book series by Kiera Cass. Media commentators have compared this project to Battle Royale and The Hunger Games, but according to Entertainment Weekly, it "lacks a violent edge."
