Screen Daily is reporting that Toei is getting ready to convert Kinji Fukasaku’s defining film Battle Royale into three dimensions.
It’s a pretty bizarre choice for conversion, isn’t it? Sure, it’s an utterly amazing film that stunned nearly everyone when it hit back in 2000, but it doesn’t seem like the kind of film that would benefit from the treatment, at all. But it might help some of you to know that Fukasaku’s son Kenta Fukasaku (the guy who picked up the reigns from him on Battle Royale 2) is helping with the new transfer.
If you haven’t seen the film, think Lord of the Flies, but gorier and with Japanese schoolkids. It’s the future, and the adults are getting fearful of an increasingly violent youth population, deciding to thin them out with the “Battle Royale Act”. Every year a class of students is chosen, dumped an island and given weapons, and left for three days until there’s only one remaining. You really, really should have seen it by now.
Royale will be ready for market screenings this October and get a
theatrical release in Japan on November 20th. No word on it expanding
to any other countries.
Let’s just hope they let the second Battle Royale stay buried, a film so bad
it actually killed Fukasaku after shooting only one scene.
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Surely if someone had seen Battle Royale 2 they'd be having heart palpitations over the idea of Kenta doing ANYTHING with the amazing original.
LOL at calling it a "defining film." Sure its up there in Fukasaku's impressive resume, but you obviously dont know much about the man's work to label it such.
oh fuck this.
What an over rated piece of garbage.
Agreed. Battle Royale 2 is absolutely wretched. Doesn't it end with them all in Afghanistan or somewhere?
You just can't stop Kenta Fukasaku from ruining Battle Royale even further at this point. God does he suck.
as if anyone hasn't seen this film.
"…Kinji Fukasaku's defining film Battle Royale…"
I'm sorry to inform you of this, but Fukasaku made over 60 films over a span of 40+ years and every one of them could kick your big brother's ass.
Battle Royale is very far from his defining film. It's just a crossover "hit" because it had Japanese schoolgirls wielding weapons and gore, which appealed to this rabid-fan geek crowd.
If you haven't heard of the Battles Without Honor series, you need to watch it, then see every yakuza film that came before it so you can understand what a term like "defining" really means, and how one dude can nearly single-handedly change a film genre.
(next I'm gonna read here that "Audition" is Miike's best… aren't I?)
i always felt that "Battle Royale" was over-praised. The CGI blood instead of using squibs is so distracting for a film that rests only on its violence instead of good acting or good visuals
Yeah this film is unbelievably overrated. Like most Japanese genre films it is shoddily done and only garners praise/notice because cinema illiterates and anime 'tards see the ridiculous material and are astounded by it.
Now Battle royale is overrated? Why do people even bother watching films these days?
@#8 "Audition" is Miike's best.
@ #11 – Welcome to CHUD: The Movie Site For People Who Hate Movies
SleestakVaginaFace … you are almost right on the money! Actually, this site is for people who are BETTER THAN YOU at liking movies … ones that try to pull up obscure stuff from directors to say they "get it" and you don't. Regardless of what Bunta above says, people around the world actually KNOW the director BECAUSE of Battle Royale … hence it is his defining film. This is not to say that all of his other stuff wasn't better (I have no idea, haven't seen any of it as far as I know) … but just because you are into niche stuff doesn't mean the rest of us unwashed and unrefined heathens are idiots.
@13 The only people hating on movies in this article are the idiots in the comments section. I thought the article was more or less innocuous.
#15 He said it was FOR people who hate movies, not BY people who hate movies.
@ #14 – Sorry to hoist you by your own petard, but I had been a rabid fan of Fukasaku DECADES before he made BR. It took one viewing of THE GREEN SLIME to make me a lifelong fan.
@ #16 – Correct, I love the guys and gals who write for CHUD and would never question their love of cinema…some of the commentors here and on the message board however…not so much.
more to the point, I love Battle Royale but why the fuck make it 3D? I am so not on board this fucking 3D latest fashion. Particularly not with doing it as a conversion in post.
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