Synchronicity of films

[IroningMan]

TTmonkey said:

Halb said:

I think that the title is more accurate now, although the youtube video to help people has the name 'copycat.'
All films are released within a year of each other, usually much shorter, months or days.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsMPeEk7AK0

Deep Impact and Armageddon is a great example.


Ta, mods!

The scripts for deep impact and Armageddon were brought about by the discovery of a large near earth meteor a few years before which ignited the imagination of a number of script writers. There was some fear that this meteor could be deflected towards earth and cause global destruction. Of course it became clear that no such thing was going to happen but it clearly set off some 'what if' stories. Hollywood reacted to something that caught the publics imagination/attention.

Brilliant synchronicity, not rip offs or remakes,

Oh. So nothing to do with Meteor, then?

[lyceum]

The A-Team and The Losers!

[Halb]

Over the Hedge
Open Season

[Beati Dogu]

Red Planet
Mission to Mars

Both 2000.

[Murph7355]

Big
Vice Versa

[Halb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9NCK0auP9I

[Halmyre]

If things had turned out different we might have included a couple of films called The Tower and The Glass Inferno.

[Halb]

Two that popped into my head today;
The General
Ordinary Decent Criminal


both very good

[Beati Dogu]

Turner & Hooch
K-9

Both 1989 buddy cop movies with a dog.

[Halb]

thismonkeyhere said:

Tombstone and Wyatt Earp - 1993/1994.

Tombstone is far superior IMO.

'Far' superior? I like it.
Earp was on a few weeks ago, watched it and it made me reread on the Vendetta trail. Nice story.

[croyde]

Battle for Terra

Avatar

Both out the same year.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com...

Edited by croyde on Sunday 18th March 17:23

[monthefish]

Legend. 2015 film about the Krays.
The Rise of the Krays. Also a 2015 about the Krays.

[putonghua73]

DervVW said:

hunger games
BAttle Royal?

Over a decade between them. However, there is quite a bit of controversy with the author of the Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins). There are a number of articles that states that Ms Collins has reportedly stated that she has never heard of Battle Royale. This has been met with some disbelief because of the numerous similarities between the two, inspiration, sources, etc. There is an argument that her [Collins] inspirations and source material would heavily lead to knowing about Battle Royale.

That said, Battle Royale is much darker i.e. the back-stories of some of the characters prior to events on the island.

[Cotty]

putonghua73 said:

That said, Battle Royale is much darker i.e. the back-stories of some of the characters prior to events on the island.

and much more violence. Hunger Games is a 12A certificate but Battle Royal is a hard 18 certificate.

[TTmonkey]

Cotty said:

putonghua73 said:

That said, Battle Royale is much darker i.e. the back-stories of some of the characters prior to events on the island.

and much more violence. Hunger Games is a 12A certificate but Battle Royal is a hard 18 certificate.

That's only because of the money making need to include the target audience from the books. The books are more graphic than the film.

Its soooo hard to believe that she came up with the same story line independently, because of their similarities, but its also, not the same story. Just generally fairly similar ideas.

[ajprice]

Somebody at the BBC has either seen this thread or the video in the OP and added a few more

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-43371...

Edited by ajprice on Monday 2nd April 18:43

[Halb]

Not always the best film which makes the money either, ANtz was brilliant

reminded of two more, not sure if in thread

1492
Christopher Columbus


Megamind (really good)
Despicable Me (quite st but spurned a monster franchise)

[Halb]

Deepstar Six
Abyss


The Road
Book of Eli

[wjb]

The Hurricane Heist
The fart I just did

[Halb]

THis is not synchronacity, but close, the timeline does propose the possibility of...homage.
Just watched The Machine on sony movies, and it reminded me of Ex Machina. A quick check shows that Ex Machina started filming a short while after The Machine was released...