From: YourName@YourISP.com
On 2019-03-10 07:13:26 +0000, Jerry Brown said:
> On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 16:51:59 +0000 (UTC), Henry McCallen
> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> SF-wise there was The Abyss, which was quickly followed[1] by
> Leviathan and Deepstar Six.
>
> 1: Since the latter two had rather lower budgets, ISTR they were
> actually completed and premiered before their progenitor.
TV / movies tend to be where these copy-cats are most obvious at
ripping each other off, but the same happens in the book industry too.
Someone writes a book that sells well and others try to jump on the
same bandwagon. The same happens in other industries as well - just
look at all the iPhone knock-offs and look-alikes after Apple created
the true smartphone.
It's what they often call a "fad" or "phase" (currently it's largely a
superhero fad for movies and TV shows). The reality is that it's simply
a pile of lazy, talentless hacks trying to cash-in on someone else's
creative success.
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