I'm glad because they'll f@ck-up both movies.

Yet again horror in entertainment is used as a scapegoat when no other answers can be found to explain senseless tragedies. Are we reduced to thinking that these various forms of entertainment are the cause or influence that make certain people go off on a rampage? This kind of human homicidal behavior has been around long before film, books, comics, video games, and tv. Wake up! There are sick people out there who cannot distinguish right from wrong. Fantasy from reality. It's always been that way. ANd it always will. Must the rest of us pay for these sick people's offenses? Apparently. It's the old adage: Someone does something so unspeakablly awful seemingly without reason, and someone or something else has to catch all the hell for it...

"we might be a little more sensitive to some of the issues" = PG-13. No sir, I don't like it. Not one bit. I understand the logic behind the move and quite frankly, business wise, it makes sense. However, its still disappointing.

Game? when was it a game? It was a novel, a manga a movie and a crappy sequel, but i don't think it was ever a game. I wish I could be upset at this, but they should at least release the original here officially. Besides, come the hell on. people were able to kill each other just fine before film was ever created. If movies really were responsible for violence or any emotion, we'd have been fucked decades ago.

I am guessing the failure of Condemned also didn't help.... Hollywood cares about money more than sensitivity.

Seung-Hui Cho was already out of his f'n gourd before he killed all those people at Virginia Tech, so I don't see how any sort of cinematic influence could have caused him to do what he did. But when it comes right down to it, horror movies (as well as video games) are this decade's Marilyn Manson and Eminem; they're merely scapegoats for people to avoid accepting responsibility for their actions.

FUCKING-A RIGHT!!! yet another awesome movie from Japan that would have been destroyed by the "Retards from "Hollywood". I do think this is a ignorant way to go about it though. Google the Iraqi death toll , its around 600,000, think any war movies gonna be coming out soon ??Serial killers have been here for as long as humanity , they have gone under various guises , but have been here non-the-less. WE LIVE TO KILL EACH OTHER and any other fucking thing that gets in our way . Also, lets not forget that in the movie everyone gets a weapon , not just one psycho . Lets petition to outlaw the auto-mobile while were at it - so no more entertainment is filled with the images of that death machine . Im ranting ,i know , whatever. Attrocities happen EVERYDAY, and will continue to happen , EVERYDAY. Battle Royale was a RETARDED IDEA to re-make , and i'm glad its shelved , and by the way it was a game.

Wow, Mr. D--that was a really good point. Hollywood always seems to cash in on major horrible events by making films about them (i.e. World Trade Center), but anything unrelated but with similar themes is thought of as disgraceful...

I just hate it when people blame movies for real life violence. People kill others after reading the new testament, but people don't ban that. Why blame Marylin Manson for columbine and Battle Royale for V Tech? Why not blame a gun culture or mental illness, rather than a cop out "movies made me do it."

Wow. When you look at this kind of story from a complete side of the horror fan who doesn't want to see this awesome film be remade, one could say that the massacre was a good thing. It stopped the idea of BR being remade. Of course, the massacre wasn't a good thing. But still.......

re-makes only serve to prove that you cannot find a writer to pen anything original in hollywood anymore. and when they do in fact try to come up with something original, they fuck it up and it is lame. horror is dead on american soil. no american can make a decent horror film in hollywood today. indy, yeah maybe, but in hollywood, never.

I think this is a good move. They should never have attempted to do a remake of Battle Royal in the first place. There is no way they could make the remake any better or even on the same level as the original. All they would have to say is high school kids killing high school kids and the cr@p would have hit the fan.

Bring it on!!! I don't care if people don't see it because of what happened, but I WANT THE REMAKE!!! It better not be PG-13...

Man that is utter crap. Battle Royale started life as a novel by Koushin Takami, not a bloody video game. Also, if Roy Lee wanted to remake Battle Royale, hopefully he would follow the novel more than the Japanese film did. I'm not saying the original film isnt good, it was an absolutely mind blowing film the first time I saw it. I'm just saying that the novel gave the characters more individuality. I.E Chigusa being a hippy chick with orange highlights and gaudy jewellery. Kazuo Kiriyama actually being part of the class, and completely emotionless due to an accident his pregnant mother had. Thats my two cents. CLEVERSLEAZOID

Without a doubt, Hollywood would have fucked these movies to irreperable pieces. It sucks big time that some idiot went off his rocker and massacred a bunch of people, and that horror is one of many scapegoats in which to place the blame. It does not only affect these (redundant) remakes, but future products that (GASP) might potentially be original. Anyway, the whole remake idea is bullshit anyway. When are people gonna wake up and realize that they keep paying to see the same damn thing almost every year. Sequels, Prequels and Remakes...god help us. It's all about the money. And as long as we keep handing it over, Hollywood will keep producing this shit. Jesus, it's like smoking the same crack everytime you go to the movies...