If the Battle Royale author/makers sued, do you think they could win?
Everyone's first reaction is to say no, but James Cameron was successfully sued by Harlan Ellison for much, much, much less on The Terminator. I actually recommend looking up that story, it's interesting to see how stringently intellectual property rights were defended back then as compared to now, as the similarities between Ellison's work and Cameron's Terminator is nowhere near as close as Battle Royale to The Hunger Games.
Also I believe the makers of "Parts: The Clonus Horror" successfully sued the makers of "The Island," did they not?
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16JellyBeans
I think the story line is different enough that Hunger Games could and would probably get away with it. Plus, like Morguloth said, the Hunger Games team has a looooooooot of money so.....
Morguloth
I think they *could* win, but that the legal costs/time expense would vastly outweigh any potential benefits. (Given how hard the Hunger Games Folk/Hollywood would fight back.)
The Hunger Games
Released: March 12, 2012
Synopsis:
In a dystopian society where the Capitol forces each district to send two young tributes to fight to the death in a televised spectacle, a girl volunteers to take her sister’s place, setting the stage for a struggle of survival and defiance.