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Fan Fiction and Ghost Taxis

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March 15, 2016 Film Industry, Follow Up, News, Scriptnotes, Transcribed

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!)

You can download the episode here: AAC | mp3.

UPDATE 3-20-16: The transcript of this episode can be found here.

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