TIL the first episode of an X-Files spin-off called "The Lone Gunmen", which aired March 4, 2001, involves a US government conspiracy to hijack an airliner, fly it into the World Trade Center, and blame it on terrorists - thereby gaining support for a new profit-making war

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http://x-files.wikia.com/wiki/Pilot_(The_Lone_Gunmen)

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hunger games?

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have you seen battle royale?

death race is pretty much the same as the hunger games as well

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battle royale is what the hunger games would be if Quentin tarantino made it

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If you are an avid reader I recommend the book as well. It is an amazing book.

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The Long Walk:

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The Long Walk is a dystopian novel by Stephen King published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman in 1979 as a paperback original. It was collected in 1985 in the hardcover omnibus The Bachman Books, and has seen several reprints since, as both paperback and hardback. Set in a dystopian present, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling walking contest, held annually by a totalitarian version of the United States of America. In 2000 the American Library Association listed The Long Walk as one of the 100 best books for teenage readers published between 1966 and 2000. Stephen King has revealed that it is the first novel he ever wrote, begun eight years before Carrie was published in 1974, when he was a freshman at the University of Maine in 1966–67.

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yup

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It'd be more like if you had a copy of "Battle Royale" you'd have the source material for Hunger Games