On the one hand, there is Hunger Games, a trilogy of novels and a tetralogy of films with gigantic success; the other, Fortnite, an ultra-popular video game in recent years. Two very distinct works, which nevertheless share a basic principle: an increasingly small arena in which we fight to the death, until only one survivor remains – and in which we can , of course, add Battle Royalethe 1999 Japanese novel and film which gave their name to this type of video game (battle royale).
On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the saga, journalist Damien Leloup wondered why Hunger Games had never been adapted into a video game. For him, the answer is to be found in what it deals with. Namely, and particularly in the United States, the greatest taboo when it comes to video games: child deaths.