Timeline would make sense. I imagine CitW needing three to four years from pre-pro to post, in which time the book would have been well established.
Well established how exactly?
Timeline would make sense. I imagine CitW needing three to four years from pre-pro to post, in which time the book would have been well established.
So this huge vault of every mythical creature and monster used for the sole purpose of a virgin sacrifice to keep cthulu from awakening in a joint black ops effort from every country is well-tread ground? I've heard of boiling something down but you just described knight rider as a show about a guy with a car.
Timeline would make sense. I imagine CitW needing three to four years from pre-pro to post, in which time the book would have been well established.
The elements of CitW that Dali mentions are left unmentioned in the suit. I haven't read the book in question, but I highly doubt with all the other similarities mentioned, that they would leave that out if it was in the book.So this huge vault of every mythical creature and monster used for the sole purpose of a virgin sacrifice to keep cthulu from awakening in a joint black ops effort from every country is well-tread ground? I've heard of boiling something down but you just described knight rider as a show about a guy with a car.its not..that..unique of an idea... staged horror in a cabin.. with young virgins..
If the Gaye family can claim a W though, based on that nonsense.. sure.. why not..? Hell i think I came up with an idea for a robot man once too.. maybe ill sue Genysis.
It was a self-printed book. It was likely only "well established" in the author's basement.Timeline would make sense. I imagine CitW needing three to four years from pre-pro to post, in which time the book would have been well established.
Based on comments ive read in the past a lot of people were saying it was basically an episode of Buffy that had been turned into a movie. Never watched Buffy so I don't know what episode or when it first aired.
I just did a quick google search and maybe I'm interpreting it wrong. Could be everyone is saying it's like an episode of Buffy in the sense that it's very Buff-esque but not copying an existing episode.
A couple of shared ideas? Big deal. Everything does that. You're not a special snowflake when you think something up, someone else will too. It's what you do with that premise that sets you apart.
And while Cabin in the Woods was about, the book is aboutold ones and sacrifice and the end of the worldQuite different.a reality TV show.
So, they could potentially have changed just the ending but the premise of the group being monitored by camera and being manipulated is still there. That's a big similarity.
So, they could potentially have changed just the ending but the premise of the group being monitored by camera and being manipulated is still there. That's a big similarity.
So, they could potentially have changed just the ending but the premise of the group being monitored by camera and being manipulated is still there. That's a big similarity.
So the book stole from The Truman Show then.
To be clear, from the filing, it's apparent that the group monitoring is part of a reality game show. Compare and contrast that with the monitoring in CitW.So, they could potentially have changed just the ending but the premise of the group being monitored by camera and being manipulated is still there. That's a big similarity.
Which in turn stole from 1984.
I know that, but the guy seems to have a hard time understanding how this stuff works.
Holy. Shit.It was all stolen from the Cube right? It's similar enough.
lol... I wonder if Whedon had not made it an homage but actually used the Pinhead design and thrown Barker some money if it would have happened
Still clever.. but actually having Pinhead (or anything else meticulously recognizable) would have been awesome.
They, kinda, did. The enemies from Valve's "Left 4 Dead" appear in the wide shot of all the different caged monsters.
Then he should be sueing SyFy Channel over the show "Scare Tactics"A couple of shared ideas? Big deal. Everything does that. You're not a special snowflake when you think something up, someone else will too. It's what you do with that premise that sets you apart.
And while Cabin in the Woods was about, the book is aboutold ones and sacrifice and the end of the worldQuite different.a reality TV show.
Timeline would make sense. I imagine CitW needing three to four years from pre-pro to post, in which time the book would have been well established.
Years available and potential for Whedon to have read it.Well established how exactly?
True. I was assuming maximum range from treatment to release but I should have assumed an extremely short production time given it's a horror film, a genre well know for turning sequels around within six months.I've seen so many people say that Cabin in the Woods is essentially a movie version of the Buffy Season 4 finale, that Joss and Drew should counter-sue this guy for stealing THEIR ideas.
CitW didn't have nearly that long of pre or post production work done on it. They wrote it over a weekend, the actual film was shot in May of 2009, and the only reason it didn't release until 2012 was because of a distribution/rights deal that had it done, sitting on a shelf, for years. I mean Deadpool is currently filming right now and it's supposed to release in February of next year. That's less than a full year of production time. It's not an animated movie.
So...This guys claim is very loose. I say offer him $100k just to make it go away.
So...
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- Steal underwear.
- Sue South Park for stealing your idea.
- Profit.
That's... exactly what this self-published author wants. It's probably the only way he recovers what he spent printing up 2500 copies of this dreck (if the earlier quoted excerpt is representative of the whole.)
I hope he has a long list of similarities because the plot isn't going to be enough.
The Island, on the other hand, was definitely copied from The Clonus Horror.
My memory may be fuzzy, but doesn't one of the Halloween movies have the same premise?
"Pay us off quick and we won't shit on your AoU parade"
It was Netflix for the longest. This thread made me want to see it again. Of course it's not on Netflix any more:/I still have yet to see the movie. I'm avoid horror movies like the plague because I hate that feeling of being startled and jump scares, but I just saw It Follows and really enjoyed. It was terrifying, but there were only one or two jump scares that I recall. And now people are recommending this. Would be weird if there is some truth to the lawsuit, though.
It's really not scary at all, although I wouldn't read too much more about it if you want to get the full impact of the movie. It's not like there is a twist (the twist occurs in the first scene if the film) , it's just an interesting idea that is fun to explore along with the film.I still have yet to see the movie. I'm avoid horror movies like the plague because I hate that feeling of being startled and jump scares, but I just saw It Follows and really enjoyed. It was terrifying, but there were only one or two jump scares that I recall. And now people are recommending this. Would be weird if there is some truth to the lawsuit, though.
I still have yet to see the movie. I'm avoid horror movies like the plague because I hate that feeling of being startled and jump scares, but I just saw It Follows and really enjoyed. It was terrifying, but there were only one or two jump scares that I recall. And now people are recommending this. Would be weird if there is some truth to the lawsuit, though.
This time. However, if it becomes common knowledge that you too can make $40K off a $500 filing fee... well then the math becomes a bit more weighted to fighting it.correct.
but... there will be court costs regardless. So if the guy takes a $40K settlement and it will be $50K in lawyer fees to even start to get this dismissed.. they save $10K.