Quentin Tarantino has some strong opinions about the billion-dollar-grossing Hunger Games franchise.

During a recent interview on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast , the two-time Oscar-winning filmmaker accused The Hunger Games of ripping off the 2000 Japanese film Battle Royale . Tarantino has regularly placed the movie, which was based on author Koushun Takami’s 1999 novel of the same name, on his favorite movies list.

“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every fucking thing she owns,” he said. “They just ripped off the fuckin’ book. Stupid book critics are not going to go watch a Japanese movie called Battle Royale so the stupid book critics never called her on it. They talked about how it was the most original fuckin’ thing they’d ev

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