Inception

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    Originally Posted By DAR

    <<that the wife would show up toward the end and ruin it.>>

    I've heard many of my married friends say the same thing.
     
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    Originally Posted By Anatole69

    So apparently Chris Nolan stole the plot from a Don Rosa Scrooge McDuck comic book:

    <a href="http://videogum.com/208132/caught-inception-ripped-off-scrooge-mcduck/remakes-and-spinoffs/" target="_blank">http://videogum.com/208132/cau...pinoffs/</a>

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    Originally Posted By Labuda

    Oh, wow! ^
     
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    Originally Posted By Anatole69

    Yes, the similarities are remarkable.

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    Originally Posted By Labuda

    So is Disney going to sue Christopher Nolan?
     
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    Originally Posted By Anatole69

    I don't think so, the word is Nolan pitched his original idea for the movie a year before this comic was published. I haven't read any summary of what that pitched contained, so I am only guessing here, but I think it is probably just a coincidence.

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    Originally Posted By Anatole69

    Article about why you will never see a lawsuit about this, though it also leaves open the possibility that Nolan was influenced by the Scrooge story:

    <a href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/ask_the_answer_bitch/b193794_did_inception_really_rip_off_scrooge.html" target="_blank">http://www.eonline.com/uberblo...oge.html</a>

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    Originally Posted By DAR

    Great stuff.
     

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