Battle Royale was originally a Japanese novel that spawned two movies (both Japanese) and a manga series... they're making an American remake, too.
But basically, in the original, everywhere one 9th-grade is kidnapped and in three days, they're meant to kill everyone until only one 'player' remains. They're given food, water and a randomly selected weapon, which could range from a machine gun to a paper fan. They have collars around the neck, so the government (who runs it) can track what's going on. If the contenders go outside the allocated zones, nobody dies in 24 hours or more than one person is alive after three days, the bombs in the collars explode, thus, killing everyone.
It's a really awesome book, and the first movie was good. Second one was shitty. The manga was alright. I dunno how they're gonna handle the remake, because it's 42 15-year-olds killing each other/themselves.
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Date: 2006-07-23 10:42 pm (UTC)But basically, in the original, everywhere one 9th-grade is kidnapped and in three days, they're meant to kill everyone until only one 'player' remains. They're given food, water and a randomly selected weapon, which could range from a machine gun to a paper fan. They have collars around the neck, so the government (who runs it) can track what's going on. If the contenders go outside the allocated zones, nobody dies in 24 hours or more than one person is alive after three days, the bombs in the collars explode, thus, killing everyone.
It's a really awesome book, and the first movie was good. Second one was shitty. The manga was alright. I dunno how they're gonna handle the remake, because it's 42 15-year-olds killing each other/themselves.
But yeah.