So, like none of these folk read The Running Man then?
Or many of the hundred times this idea has been used in Sci-fi.
This was my first version:
And that is pretty much just a ripoff of the movie The Running Man.
Good artists copy. Great artists steal.
—a whole lot of people who stole from each other
the hindi film industry is itself littered with corpses of stolen ideas from other film industries across the world for decades now.
seems karma’s come home to roost if this story is true.
Two wrongs don’t make a right. Also pretty terrible to blame one dude for the faults of an entire national industry.
It’s not a wrong though and even if it was, it’s not their idea to begin with, they stole it from Hunger Games and Battle Royale.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/battle_royale
I wouldn’t be surprised if the theme also showed up in books that predate all of these films.
Battle Royale is about kids killing each other, not being killed in the course of competitive trials.
If anything, Hunger Games is a bigger culprit for that.
Remind me again where Fortnite and Hunger Games got the ideal for Battle Royale stories.