[ SECRET POST #2972 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2972 ⌋

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Comments

[erinptah]

I read somewhere that, early in the writing/drafting process, there was a conversation like this:
Editor: Have you heard of this series called Battle Royale?
Collins: No, why? Should I check it out?
Editor: No! Absolutely not. Anything you know about it will screw up your ability to write this story without second-guessing whether every decision is original enough. Red card. Do not approach.

...which I could believe happened. The similarities are mostly really broad, general-premise-level things. It would be like accusing Firefly of being a ripoff of Star Wars because it involves a ragtag group of outlaws on a spaceship in a faraway galaxy, and two of them are brother and sister.

[(Anonymous)]

Interesting. I certainly don't think it's impossible that she came up with the idea on her own. But the whole arena with kids fighting to the death in a dystopian society, still seems like a bit of a coincidence, especially considering BR has a big cult following. I daresay it's still possible that she had come across the plot summary or a reference to BR, without necessarily seeing it, but oh well. Either way, I think the plots are different enough, and the purpose of the novels are different enough, where that doesn't matter much anyway.

[(Anonymous)]

I think both of them were drawing from Roman history...