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Quentin Tarantino slams The Hunger Games as a blatant ripoff, saying " sue Suzanne [Collins] for every f**king thing she owns ." Collins is the author of five Hunger Games books, four of which have been adapted into major motion pictures, with Sunrise on the Reaping set for release in theaters on November 20, 2026.
Appearing on The Bret Easton Ellis Podcast , Quentin Tarantino expressed his frustration about how The Hunger Games is a blatant ripoff of the Japanese film Battle Royale (2000), which was based on a 1999 novel by Koushun Takami. Read Tarantino's full comments below:
I do not understand how the Japanese writer didn't sue [Hu

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