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   Dimensional Traveler wrote:   
   > I'm sensing another instance of "several projects based on the same   
   > idea" happening.  Hilary Swank and Rose Byrne have finished filming a   
   > movie that sounds like it comes from the same seed.   
   >   
   > "The sci-fi thriller I am Mother stars Clara Rugaard as a teenager   
   > raised underground by a robot following an extinction event. Hilary   
   > Swank plays a woman from the outside world. Grant Sputore directed from   
   > a screenplay by Michael Lloyd Green."   
   >   
      
   I'm not surprised. The studios often watch what each other are doing.   
   It's probably the same for all entertainment media. I remember there   
   was some talk a few years back about how all the procedural police   
   shows were running the same basic storyline. The assumption was that   
   someone found out what the other show was doing and either   
   deliberately or inadvertantly copied the idea.   
      
   I think something similar happened with Tom Hanks earlier in his   
   career. If I remember correctly, he played in a film called   
   Turner and Hooch about a police officer and a canine partner. This   
   was copied by Jim Belushi in a similar film. Or the Hanks film   
   copied the Belushi film. Either way, someone probably saw the   
   film slate of the other studio and thought it was going to   
   do well, so a copycat film was made. Either that, or some writer was   
   pitching a lot and the idea got picked up without realizing that   
   other studios were on to the same thing.   
      
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