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Happens a lot, to most. There's a distinctive possibility that if you write something strong enough to get you noticed, prodcos will say "this is great - but we've had five similar scripts through our doors in the last six months".  

I don't think in 99% of cases anythings been ripped off, it's just there's a lot of people at the pub, and their all drinking beer. I guess it does happen but not as much as people think.



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I had an idea for a tv series about a woman called sam, working for a private intelligence agency, character driven, backstory's about family histories... lots of action and espionage and double-crosses...


I wrote a 60 page spec-pilot last year. Basically the same premise (but she wasn't called Sam)   I'd wager there are loads of these in the spec pile.

A few years ago I went on holiday to Iceland, became a bit obsessed with the place because it's great. Had the idea that it would be a great place to film a sci-fi story. (geothermal, volcanic landscapes filled with awesome waterfalls and glaciers).  
Wrote a short that I was planning on expanding into a feature.

Then the trailer for Prometheus came out. Knockout punch The story wasn't going to be about aliens, but now I feel the need to change to landscape, which was going to be a character in itself and effect the narrative.



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Yeah - this is a lot of why I got into it too! (Maybe there's a film in there - about some shadowy production company going around sucking ideas from people's brains then producing them as films?)


Yeah, I thought of that one too.
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Yeah - this is a lot of why I got into it too! (Maybe there's a film in there - about some shadowy production company going around sucking ideas from people's brains then producing them as films?)


Hey, that sounds slightly familiar to... Inception. Maybe you got brain-sucked by Christopher Nolan?


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Hey, that sounds slightly familiar to... Inception. Maybe you got brain-sucked by Christopher Nolan?


That's funny because before Inception was released, I had an story idea about the government going inside people's dreams to profile terrorists. I ditched the idea after I saw it.
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