Some famous movies and series are blatant ripoffs.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT According to Mark Twain, there's no such thing as a new idea; some movies and TV shows have gone to great lengths to prove him right as there are several that have stolen original ideas from other franchises. While Hollywood is currently under scrutiny for its unoriginal practice of endless reboots and sequels, it’s worth revisiting some works that seem to be in denial about their origins.
9 The Walking Dead Over the years, many have pointed out a similarity between two classics of the zombie genre, 28 Days Later and The Walking Dead. Both begin with their protagonists waking from a coma to find their world ravaged by a zombie outbreak. The creator of the original Walking Dead comics series, Robert Kirkman, admits the 28 Days Later similarity, but insists that he didn’t see the film until after he had written the first chapter of the comic.
6 R.I.P.D. As soon as R.I.P.D.’s trailer dropped, the film faced accusations of flagrantly ripping off Men In Black with its premise of a secret agency tasked with policing the otherworldly visitors who wreak havoc upon the earth. The movie even apes the beloved dynamic of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones as the young hot-shot and curmudgeonly southern mentor with its central pairing of Ryan Reynolds and Jeff Bridges. An R.I.P.D.
4 Nosferatu One of the oldest and most brazen cases of plot-copying occurred with the 1922 silent horror classic Nosferatu. The oldest surviving vampire film, Nosferatu is an unofficial adaptation of Bram Stoker’s classic novel, Dracula. The character names, locations and a handful of plot details were changed, but the story is largely identical. The film even features an opening title card which acknowledges the source. Naturally, the Stoker estate sued over the adaptation and swiftly won.
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