{"id":2188691,"date":"2025-12-05T22:49:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2188691"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:49:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:49:48","slug":"josh-hutcherson-responds-to-quentin-tarantino-saying-hunger-games-ripped-off-battle-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/josh-hutcherson-responds-to-quentin-tarantino-saying-hunger-games-ripped-off-battle-royale\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson responds to Quentin Tarantino saying \u201cHunger Games\u201d &#8216;ripped off&#8217; \u201cBattle Royale\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/josh-hutcherson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Josh Hutcherson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Josh Hutcherson<\/a> is responding to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/quentin-tarantino\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Quentin Tarantino;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Quentin Tarantino<\/a>&#8216;s criticism of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/the-hunger-games\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The Hunger Games;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><em>The Hunger Games<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After the <em>Hateful Eight<\/em> filmmaker accused author <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/person\/suzanne-collins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Suzanne Collins;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Suzanne Collins<\/a> of copying the Japanese novel and movie <em>Battle Royale<\/em> when writing the first installment of her young adult sci-fi novel series, Hutcherson appeared nonplussed by Tarantino&#8217;s remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;There are similar themes, for sure,&#8221; the actor behind Peeta Mellark <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2025\/film\/news\/josh-hutcherson-shrugs-off-tarantino-hunger-games-ripoff-1236599274\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:admitted;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">admitted<\/a> to <em>Variety<\/em>. &#8220;But, you know, everyone borrows from everyone.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\">\n<div class=\"relative\"><button aria-label=\"View larger image\" class=\"group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent\" data-ylk=\"elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;\"><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 22 22\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"size-4 lg:size-6\" width=\"22\" height=\"22\"><path d=\"M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/button><dialog aria-label=\"Modal Dialog\" aria-modal=\"true\" class=\"fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Murray Close\/Lionsgate<\/p>\n<p> Josh Hutcherson in &#8216;The Hunger Games&#8217;<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tarantino <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/s9e47-best-of-144366309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:sounded off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">sounded off<\/a> about the similarities between <em>Battle Royale<\/em> and <em>The Hunger Games<\/em> \u2014 which both revolve around teenagers murdering each other in a bloody dystopian competition \u2014 during a fiery appearance on <em>The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;<em>Battle Royale<\/em> is based on a novel. I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn\u2019t sue Suzanne Collins for every f&#8212;ing thing she owns,&#8221; Tarantino <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/posts\/s9e47-best-of-144366309\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">said<\/a> in a recent episode of <em>The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast<\/em>. &#8220;They just ripped off the f&#8212;ing book!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tarantino was not the first to observe the similarities between the two stories, and Collins clarified that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/04\/10\/magazine\/mag-10collins-t.html?pagewanted=all\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:she knew nothing about Battle Royale;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">she knew nothing about <em>Battle Royale<\/em><\/a> until she had already finished her manuscript for the first <em>Hunger Games<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I had never heard of that book or that author until my book was turned in,&#8221; she told <em>The New York Times<\/em> in 2011. &#8220;At that point, it was mentioned to me, and I asked my editor if I should read it. He said: &#8216;No, I don\u2019t want that world in your head. Just continue with what you\u2019re doing.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hutcherson played lovable baker Peeta Mellark in the first four <em>Hunger Games<\/em> films, serving as the primary love interest and arena ally for Jennifer Lawrence&#8217;s Katniss Everdeen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The <em>Hunger Games<\/em> film series continued with the 2023 prequel,\u00a0<em>The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/em>, which chronicled the rise of future President Coriolanus Snow. The franchise will continue in 2026 with <em>Sunrise on the Reaping<\/em>, a prequel focusing on Haymitch Abernathy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><em>Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with our <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/ew-dispatch-newsletter-11812417\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:EW Dispatch newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I\u2019m so excited to see the series continue and the amazing cast they\u2019ve gotten for it,\u201d Hutcherson told <em>Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hutcherson currently stars on Rachel Sennott&#8217;s HBO comedy series <em>I Love LA<\/em>. He can also be seen in the horror sequel <em>Five Nights at Freddy&#8217;s 2<\/em>, which hits theaters on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/ew.com\/josh-hutcherson-responds-to-quentin-tarantino-hunger-games-criticism-11862387\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Entertainment Weekly;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Entertainment Weekly<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Hutcherson is responding to Quentin Tarantino&#8216;s criticism of The Hunger Games. After the Hateful Eight filmmaker accused author Suzanne Collins of copying the Japanese novel and movie Battle Royale when writing the first installment of her young adult sci-fi novel series, Hutcherson appeared nonplussed by Tarantino&#8217;s remarks. &#8220;There are similar themes, for sure,&#8221; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2188692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[404693,422394,422395,355239,392422,318878,422393,348465],"class_list":["post-2188691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-battle-royale","tag-bret-easton-ellis-podcast","tag-hutcherson","tag-josh-hutcherson","tag-peeta-mellark","tag-quentin-tarantino","tag-suzanne-collins","tag-the-hunger-games"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Josh-Hutcherson-responds-to-Quentin-Tarantino-saying-Hunger-Games-ripped.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2188691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2188693,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188691\/revisions\/2188693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2188691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2188691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2188691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}