Craig and John look at three stories in the news for another installment of “How Would This Be a Movie?” From fake scientists to figure skaters, we pitch our takes before some actor’s production company buys the rights.
Speaking of rights, a new lawsuit targets the makers of Creed for stealing the idea. The case will almost certainly get tossed, but it raises a discussion about fan fiction and what constitutes an original work.
Links:
EW’s Oliver Gettell on the Creed lawsuit Grosso v. Miramax on Wikipedia Business Insider on Fifty Shades of Grey’s origin as fan fiction Cassandra Clare on fan fiction Snopes on the fake missing scientist news The Washington Post on Debi Thomas Ghost passengers in The Asahi Shimbun and Mirror Online Ingrid Sundberg’s The Color Thesaurus The Walk of Life Project Hardcore Henry trailer The Bronze trailer Outro by Sam Tahhan (send us yours!)
