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    Kirk Cameron Left Me BehindAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 11:50am

    There’s also apparently a scene with a hammer in both works[...]

    I have a hammer in my house. WILL I BE SUED, TOO?

    lol I’m kidding. Oh, we do have fun here on double-you double-you double-you dot aye vee club dot com.

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      The NesquikeningKirk Cameron Left Me Behind
      12/07/17 12:01pm

      Also, Adventures in Babysitting, because the girl in that carried around a hammer like her hero Thor.

      Also Thor.

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      Pope FrancisKirk Cameron Left Me Behind
      12/07/17 12:02pm

      [throws manuscript titled “The Sweet and Pleasant Housewife Who Was Actually a Murderous Psychopath Who Bashed Her Own Face In With a Hammer” in the trash]

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    cremazieAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 12:32pm

    Why are these accusations always so weak? That’s not even similar enough to merit a “huh. what a weird coincidence.” 

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      gesundheitallcremazie
      12/07/17 1:08pm

      Also a little suspect that the screenwriter waited until AFTER the movie adaptation so lots of much wealthier people could be sued than a just a novelist. It’s not like it was an under-the-radar book.

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      TampaBabaYagacremazie
      12/07/17 4:26pm

      Exactly, Amy never came off as naive even in the beginning of the book. So that alone is specious. She did it up for the one pregnant neighbor but good gravy. There are very few original plots left, it is all about what you do with it. I’d want to read the screenplay to see if there were even a tinge of merit.

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    The Continental OpAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 11:44am

    I’ve never read Gone Girl, but I thought the movie was very similar to Patricia Highsmith’s ‘A Suspension of Mercy’

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      Frank Walker BarrThe Continental Op
      12/07/17 11:57am

      Her non-Ripley novels really need to be more popular than they are

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      Coati TuesdayFrank Walker Barr
      12/07/17 12:05pm

      I’ve never read Highsmith’s non-Ripley novels! An oversight I really ought to correct. I did read all the Ripleys in pretty much one long weekend - at the end of it I just didn’t trust anyone, anywhere. But I was fine about it.

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    CineCraftAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 11:54am

    I had a notion once that for which I sought funding to develop into a concept, but the bastards stole it and made it into an idea without me. Can I sue them?

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      jorvackianCineCraft
      12/07/17 12:06pm

      This happened to me! When I was a teenager there was a Perelli Tire commercials where at the the end there is sort of a metal man. I thought what if there was a villain made of liquid metal who could turn into weapons. 2 years later Terminator 2 happened. I figure now would be a good time to sue for my original idea.

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    wykstradAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 4:24pm

    An alarming number of men are also suing Flynn for stealing their fictional idea of a woman who lies about events in order to entrap them in a situation that looks bad but has a perfectly logical explanation, they swear.

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    Holden MartinsonAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 12:25pm

    When I was 15, I was thinking of ideas for stories. The adage I kept running into was “write what you know.” But then I thought, “What if I wrote about something I didn’t know anything about, but in the silliest way possible? What if I wrote about a CPA, which sounds boring, but then I made their life sound exciting by filling it with espionage and gun play?”

    Should I sue the screenwriter of The Accountant? It sounds like I’ve got a case.

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    Velvet AlAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 5:48pm

    Let’s say Gillian Flynn did steal the idea for Gone Girl. How do you bring a lawsuit against David Fincher? Presumably, he would’ve been unaware of Heller’s screenplay and would’ve been working under the assumption that it was a wholesale creation of Flynn’s. This reeks of throw shit at the wall and hope something sticks.

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    ArdentAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 12:42pm

    One hopes a suit isn’t being brought without some evidence of exposure prior to the author’s supposed theft, because the story elements unto themself aren’t terribly specific in combination or otherwise.

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    Dr Emilio LizardoAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 7:07pm

    This is why if you mail a script to some Hollywood bigwig, unsolicited, they will throw it in the garbage without opening it.

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    TheUnnumberedOneAlex McLevy
    12/07/17 12:47pm

    She will also be suing the surviving Beatles for “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer.”

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