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"The CW president Mark Pedowitz has defended plans to make a Battle Royale TV show. Koushun Takami&amp;#039;s 1999 novel Battle Royale - made into a 2000 film by Kinji Fukasaku - follows a group of schoolchildren who are pitted against each other in a fight to the death.   &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;d love to do it,&amp;quot; Pedowitz told reporters at the TCA press tour. &amp;quot;Hopefully, we&amp;#039;ll be able to make a deal with the producers, and we&amp;#039;ll see where it goes.&amp;quot; The network head insisted that a Battle Royale television series is viable for the teen-oriented CW, despite the original book&amp;#039;s violent content, Entertainment Weekly reports. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re not planning to do anything that we cannot get on the air,&amp;quot; he argued. &amp;quot;No, we&amp;#039;re not going to go in that direction [of on-screen violence]. We&amp;#039;re going to wait to see what happens and how things develop.&amp;quot; Pedowitz added that he is looking for a show with a &amp;quot;Game of Thrones / Hunger Games tone&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;Battle Royale comes with a nice cult following, as we all know,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;gt; Battle Royale set for US television adaptation? Watch the trailer for 2000&amp;#039;s Battle Royale movie below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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