Real 'Hunger Games'? Murder, Rape Allowed As Russian Millionaire Staging Brutal Reality Show Contest In Siberia

Drawing instant comparison to the blockbuster film franchise and best-selling young adult book trilogy “The Hunger Games,” a Russian millionaire has planned to stage a reality show contest pitting 30 people in Siberia for nine months. Shocking acts like “fighting, murder and rape” will be allowed, the Sun reported Thursday.

Yevgeny Pyatkovsky, 35, reportedly intends to hand the winner of “Game2: Winter” £1.3 million ($1.6 million) if they can survive the freezing temperatures and dangerous animals like bears and wolves, all while hunting and fishing for their own food. They will also be issued knives, but no guns.

“Everything is allowed. Fighting, alcohol, murder, rape, smoking, anything,” the rules read according to the Sun.

Pyatkovsky also said the contest would completely disavow what is done by the participants, half of which will be women.

“We will refuse any claim of participants even if they were to be killed or raped,” he said. “We will have nothing to do with this. This will be spelt out in a document to be signed by the participant before the start of the show.”

However, Russia’s criminal laws can and likely will be applied to anyone who is caught committing heinous acts and the contestants are told that “the police will come and take you away.”

A film crew will not follow the contestants around the wilderness, but cameras will be placed around the game’s area and the contestants will also have cameras capable of running for seven hours. The report says 2,000 cameras will cover a 2,225-arce terrain and it will be accessible online in several languages, including English, French and Spanish.

The show is scheduled to start in July and contestants must be at least 18 years old, deemed “mentally sane” and pay £132,000 (more than $163,000) to participate. They will also receive training from GRU Spetnaz “operatives,” an elite special forces group from Russia’s military intelligence arm that actually preceded the KGB.