Battle Royale remake
 

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=14899

Well. I never expected to see this headline.

Um.

Most controversial movie of the next few years, right here. Unless...

Just watch, they'll change it to either a college class or just random adults placed on an island to avoid having kids killing kids (which was the whole damn draw of the original).

I mean, there's already a cool movie about adults chosen to kill each other off to survive (it was called Series 7).

Hey maybe they can use the slut girl more here, nude scenes and stuff. =D.
This could be good or it could be bad, depends on the cast.

Needs moar Kitano!

Nothing good will come out of this. The end will be another americanized movie without substance.

Because shit like this will cause more school shootings.

Though, I wonder with this remake a hopefull official R1 DVD release of the original, like most Asian remakes.

I can't see anything good comming out of this....I guess I'll wait and see.
So, will this be based on part BR 1 or BR 2?

I'm guessing BR 1, but still, they'll find a way to make it suck. My guess is they will throw too much focus on the "apocolypic future" and will probably make the children like the kids in The Road Warrior. Great.

Interesting news. I enjoyed the first Battle Royale, as it felt fresh in a weird sort of way. Hopefully the remake will maintain the kind of raw and brutalness even if they have to make changes here and there to make it suitable for the audience.

I'm worried the subtle aspects behind the characterisation of Robotic Uzi Guy will be totally lost in a remake.

I spent a fortune to get the R0 UK NTSC release of the original because I felt it would never get a R1 release. Now, I'm sure it will.

Dammit.

I don't remember BR being very 'sci fi'... Anyway, if there's going to be a remake, I expect it will be more consumer friendly which will certainly take the edge and shock value off the original.

I thought BR was an amazing show. It was no doubt violent, but it explored an even darker side of that. How just in one moment a fatal mistake can dictate the death of everyone. I'll never forget the scene where the Japanese girl who eats the soup dies and it leads onto a chain of events that gets everyone killed. The mistrust, suspicion and doubt, it's more of an exploration of the human psyche and I think that's what makes this show interesting.

However, I think the no doubt this "americanized" version will be thrashy. I hated all remakes of the Japanese to the English, EVEN the most basic things like voiceovers (I totally HATE all Final Fantasy English voiceovers as well as those for animes *yucks yucks yucks*) so I don't think I will be a huge fan of this new movie. Just look at the Dead or Alive series. They're going to make it into a movie and it just looks horrendously thumbs down.

Still, going to keep my options open. No doubt this show will be filled with gory elements but whether it still keeps the true sanity and meaning behind the story is another thing.

Why the hell are they remaking this right now. The original just came out a few years ago, and even then it wasn't very good. Maybe this time they can do it right: I'm talking about Rambo vs. Ash Williams vs. El Mariachi vs. The Man With No Name vs. Frank Zappa himself (note: Frank Zappa will win). Or if they can't afford that, at least give us a villain who doesn't look like an even more effeminate version of David Bowie.

Double Post:
Yes, the satan-worshipping vampire nazis at the production studio are sitting around their table sipping glasses of blood, diabolically twisting their mustaches and asking themselves "How exactly can we butcher this by Americanizing it?" just to antagonize waps all over the world.

I gave the original BR a dl at the request of a friend of mine, man that show was certainly different and nothing of what I expected. Senseless killing, paranoia, love, and betrayal all wrapped around the most warped concept of a movie.

I don't see how an american remake can do the file justice without just doing the EXACT same thing.

NOOOOO.
I was beaten to the punch.
there goes my plan for a trilogy that actually does the Battle Royale story and characters justice.

Does anyone else think that the whole concept of this movie is rather stupid?

I take it you don't watch terribly much anime. Gotta just take some things in stride~

It's gonna suck o_o The Ring remake sucked. The Grudge remake sucked. Their sequels sucked. This'll do the same as a result. The American film industry is quite unoriginal. Hence all these damn remakes.

Thank god, I thought I was the only one. Basically, this is half a movie. There is action but no badass hero or plot. It's like the counterpart for Escape from New York (which was plenty badass but had almost no action).

OH CHRIST NO. It's gonna have whiny jailbait fourteen-year-old American girls kicking the shit out of each other, and not in a good way.

I'm not going to see this. What utter bullshit.

Bumping

Ha are you kidding? America? If they go ahead and make the characters 14-15 years old they'll totally desexualise the whole thing and probably up the violence.
Expect slut girl to be replaced by white supremecist boy, who'll see the folly in his ways by being saved by black girl.

Regardless, im sick of some of you guys dismissing this remake outright. If you like the original so much why do you expect this one to be so much worse.
I expect a competent remake, with similarly brutal violence, more dramatic dialogue, and less art house scenes. The films themes will be slightly different and made more explicit though a monologue from Binoculars girl. And there will probably be a little less attention to detail and a plot hole thorwn in for good measure.

I guess you should download the original move and watch it then.

I don't get it. They can't release the original movie in America, but can get rights to remake it?

The reason Battle Royale doesn't have a US release is because Toei wants an obscene amount of money for what essentially amounts to a indie flick; I'm curious how much New Line paid for the remake rights.

Well, looking on the bright side, at least it isn't Disney who is making this movie. But they might as well, it'll suck either way.

I read that Toei wants about ~2,000,000$ for distribution rights, which doesn't seem like an unreasonable amount, considering that the budget of the film was ~4,500,000$, and it would almost certainly make a lot more than two million dollars in the States (unless it was actually banned).