Peeta Mellark has spoken.

Josh Hutcherson is shrugging off Quentin Tarantino’s claim that “The Hunger Games” franchise “ripped off” a Japanese book and film with a similar concept called “Battle Royale.”

“There are similar themes, for sure,” Hutcherson, 33, told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “But, you know, everyone borrows from everyone.”

Tarantino, 62, accused “Hunger Games” author Suzanne Collins of “ripping off” Kinji Fukasaku’s 2000 dystopian thriller last month while listing his top 20 favorite films of the 21st century.

The “Pulp Fiction” director placed “Battle Royale” at No. 11 before criticizing Collins’ story and the film series that followed.

“I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn’t sue Suzanne Collins for every f–king thing she owns,” Taranti

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