Mmn. Well. I suppose, just as easily, Stephen King, Clive Barker, and the directors of "Sphere", "Jacob's Ladder", "Session 9", and a whole slew of other movies could sue Akira Yamaoka and the boys at Konami for Silent Hill. After all, I'd be hard-pressed to find a damn thing in those games that's original, outside of the music and some of the plot points. Even the characters look like other people.
If, as she claims, the heart of the Matrix story truly does come from her, I suppose this lady deserves her money...but the fact that she's getting it for the Terminator movies as well...nngh. I dunno. The Wachowskis had nothing to do with that one, primo, and secundo, she's certainly not the first writer to posit machines overrunning the earth and mankind. Phillip K. Dick, were he not in his grave, might have two cents to throw in right about now, among other writers.
(Pssssst, I bought the Übermenschen Box Set today. Because the Matrix rules, regardless of court settlements)
I just find it highly amusing that if they had paid her the money to let them use her story in the first place, they'd be saving billions of dollars. She sent it to them, she obviously would have been happy to let them make something out of it. If they had paid her to buy the manuscript from her then, this probably wouldn't be such an issue. Oops. Stupid people.
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If, as she claims, the heart of the Matrix story truly does come from her, I suppose this lady deserves her money...but the fact that she's getting it for the Terminator movies as well...nngh. I dunno. The Wachowskis had nothing to do with that one, primo, and secundo, she's certainly not the first writer to posit machines overrunning the earth and mankind. Phillip K. Dick, were he not in his grave, might have two cents to throw in right about now, among other writers.
(Pssssst, I bought the Übermenschen Box Set today. Because the Matrix rules, regardless of court settlements)
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(Interesting story though)