‘Rollerball’ and ‘Death Race 2000’, both from 1975, are the progenitors of the genre. The first one is based on the screenwriter William Harrison’s short story ‘Roller Ball Murder’ from 1973, the second one on Ib Melchior’s 1956 short story ‘The Racer’, but the stories are pretty much unknown compared to the films.
Both of these set the totalitarian and corrupt backdrop. ‘The Running Man’ particularly feels like a rehashing of ‘Death Race 2000’ — at least the film does, idk about the novel since they’re supposedly not 1:1.
‘The Hunger Games’ also uses the premise of ‘Battle Royale’, afaik.
‘Rollerball’ and ‘Death Race 2000’, both from 1975, are the progenitors of the genre. The first one is based on the screenwriter William Harrison’s short story ‘Roller Ball Murder’ from 1973, the second one on Ib Melchior’s 1956 short story ‘The Racer’, but the stories are pretty much unknown compared to the films.
Both of these set the totalitarian and corrupt backdrop. ‘The Running Man’ particularly feels like a rehashing of ‘Death Race 2000’ — at least the film does, idk about the novel since they’re supposedly not 1:1.
‘The Hunger Games’ also uses the premise of ‘Battle Royale’, afaik.