{"id":29269,"date":"2012-07-30T14:54:20","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=29269"},"modified":"2012-07-30T14:54:20","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T18:54:20","slug":"cw-considering-battle-royale-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/cw-considering-battle-royale-tv-series\/","title":{"rendered":"CW Considering Battle Royale TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/battle-royale-movie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/battle-royale-movie-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Battle Royale\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-29270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/battle-royale-movie-450x337.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/battle-royale-movie-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/battle-royale-movie.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Times newspaper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/moviesnow\/la-et-mn-battle-royale-could-be-reborn-as-a-tv-show-20120726,0,5414971.story\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a> that the CW network is in preliminary negotiations to acquire the rights to produce an American live-action TV series inspired by Koushun Takami&#8217;s 1999 novel Battle Royale. Producer Roy Lee has expressed the opinion that the success of Suzanne Collins&#8217;s subsequent Hunger Games franchise has crushed the viability of an American Battle Royale movie. But the Los Angeles Times opins that a TV series, &#8220;could offer a new opportunity, picking up on the theme but in a different way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/interest\/2012-07-26\/l.a-times\/cw-discusses-battle-royale-tv-remake-in-u.s\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times newspaper reports that the CW network is in preliminary negotiations to acquire the rights to produce an American live-action TV series inspired by Koushun Takami&#8217;s 1999 novel Battle Royale. Producer Roy Lee has expressed the opinion that the success of Suzanne Collins&#8217;s subsequent Hunger Games franchise has crushed the viability of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29271,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29269\/revisions\/29271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}