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Battle Royale
 Tags: battle royale, blood, DEAD PROJECTS, development hell, high school, MISC, Original Film, REMAKES, Roy Lee, students, Vertigo Entertainment, violence |
No official plot yet, but the original was set in Japan, where violence among the youth have sky-rocketed, leaving the government to create a program dubbed "Battle Royale", in which a class of 40-something jr. high students are sent to a remote island to battle one another, with only one to survive.
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PROJECT DETAILS
- Announced back in 2006, development of the project was haulted in 2007 due to the unfortunate events at Virginia Tech and is now believed to be dead or in a state of limbo.
- Supposedly the film was intended to receive an R rating.
- It's said that an idea that was quickly brushed off was to have the students possibly part of some sort of juvenile detention system, which was going to be one way to "tone down" the storyline for us apparently squeemish American audiences.
- The film was going to take place in America (no surprise) and would still deal with high school students.
- Produced by Roy Lee (The Ring, The Grudge) with Neal Moritz (I Am Legend).
- New Line Cinema owns the remake rights.
- The original still hasn't gotten proper US distribution, and many speculate it may have to do with all the controversay surrounding the deaths of high school students, though, no official reason is known.
- The original film is one of the handful of movies that received a 10/10 rating when it was reviewed on UHM. You can read the review here.
- A remake of the controversial 2000 Japanese film with the same name.
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HEADLINES
Dates are tentative and subject to change.
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 14, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, February 17, 2012
- Tue, February 21, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, February 28, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 2, 2012 (VOD)
- Tue, March 6, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 9, 2012
- Sat, March 17, 2012 (SyFy)
- Tue, March 20, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, March 30, 2012
- Tue, April 3, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 6, 2012 (Limited)
- Tue, April 10, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 13, 2012 (Chiller)
- Fri, April 13, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 17, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, April 20, 2012 (Limited)
- Fri, April 20, 2012
- Tue, April 24, 2012 (DVD)
- Tue, April 24, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, April 27, 2012
- Fri, May 4, 2012 (VOD)
- Fri, May 11, 2012
- Fri, June 8, 2012
- Tue, June 12, 2012 (DVD)
- Fri, June 22, 2012
- Fri, August 17, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 24, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, August 31, 2012
- Fri, September 14, 2012
- Fri, September 21, 2012
- Fri, October 5, 2012
- Fri, October 19, 2012
- Fri, October 26, 2012
- Fri, December 21, 2012
- Fri, January 11, 2013
- Fri, February 1, 2013
- Fri, February 15, 2013
- Fri, February 22, 2013
- Fri, April 12, 2013
- Fri, May 10, 2013
- Fri, June 28, 2013
I'm happy that this film was being dead in it's track,I will cherish this movie for the rest of my life, Hollywood would only make it worse they are giving asian movies a bad reputation by having the remakes become critically panned by critics!!
Pretty please don't fuck up more Japanese films.
Oh hell no.
I'm so glad this movie is in Limbo....America would absolutely ruin this movie. They would cast a bunch of kids from glee,or one tree hill....make the movie in 3D.....give it a pg-13 rating...OH AND TO MAKE THINGS BETTER?!?! HAVE THE DIRECTOR OF THE TWILIGHT SAGA DIRECT THIS TRAIN WRECK!!!!
"Supposedly the film was intended to receive an R rating. "
Um, what rating were they originally shooting for? PG? PG-13?
yaaaaaaaa its dying lets all kick it while its down and laugh at all its short comings i wounder if this film ever does make it out of development hell how badly it will do although i do hope it stays where it belongs in development hell but wouldnt it be great to watch it and laugh at how bad it is and call the people involved with the film a******s which if complete the film they will be lets be honest the di**s in volved will find a way of making this crap with the idiot that is zac efron as the main character if any of the crew making the film see this listen carefully dont do that any more please i am begging dont ruin another great film
As long as its dead in the water, the original is safe from the greedy shitty hands of Hollywood. Hooray!
so true
NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! The film industry has already screwed up by turning the basic premise into that stupid movie where the inmates fight to survive and now they want to screw up a perfectly good film...