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Studio that owns Star Wars to remake Star Wars rip-off

If Lucas had the rights to Dune, and the Lynch movie never came out, he'd have made it for sure. So many of his effects ideas seem to have been inspired by Jodorowsky...
 
No, it's not.

The skeleton 3PO walks by in A New Hope however...

...and sandcrawlers...

...and the Jedi Mind trick...

No, seriously, if we're up in arms over plagiarism then boycott Lucasfilm.
 
Eragon itself - as well as the rest of the Inheritance Trilogy - was blatant plagiarism - of Star Wars, of Lord of the Rings, of Dune, and the list goes on - that never should have been published.

Kurosawa might have something to say about that.



What you are referencing in those movies aren't that the each copied off of each other but that they are all inspired by similar sources. Lucas, Tolkien, and Herbert were all open in acknowledging the inspirations for their stories. There isn't anything wrong with a work being inspired by works that were themselves inspired by earlier works in a similar fashion.
 
The Inheritance Cycle flat-out copy-pastes its plot from Star Wars and Dune, its Elven lore from Lord of the Rings, and its dragon/dragonriding lore and mechanics from Anne McCaffrey, and the author makes no attempt to even disguise the fact that he wholesale cribbed from those stories.
 
The Inheritance Cycle flat-out copy-pastes its plot from Star Wars and Dune, its Elven lore from Lord of the Rings, and its dragon/dragonriding lore and mechanics from Anne McCaffrey, and the author makes no attempt to even disguise the fact that he wholesale cribbed from those stories.
So if it combines them, then you have a totally different picture from the individual parts, right?
 
So if it combines them, then you have a totally different picture from the individual parts, right?

No, because the author didn't bother creating an original story from the stuff he cribbed; he just pasted it all together and stuck his name on the resulting manuscript.
 
@wayoung Disney didn't own Star Wars when the Inheritance Cycle (I erroneously called it a Trilogy) was published, and they don't own any of the other IPs that it blatantly and openly plagiarized.

But you said ownership doesn't matter. WB is propogating plagerism with the Shazam movies!

Besides ,WB Discovery didn't own superman when the plagerism occurred then there either. It's the exact same situation.
 
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The Inheritance Cycle flat-out copy-pastes its plot from Star Wars and Dune, its Elven lore from Lord of the Rings, and its dragon/dragonriding lore and mechanics from Anne McCaffrey, and the author makes no attempt to even disguise the fact that he wholesale cribbed from those stories.
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It's just a really bad book.
It really is. Yea, Paolini was fifteen, but it's still Eye of Argon-level bad. (Yes, I read it. I haven't read any of the others, but I suffered through Eragon. I really don't know why I did that to myself.)

I thought it was a nice touch that the film adaptation acknowledged the Star Wars rip-off nature of the story by homaging a couple of shots, like Eragon watching the sun the way Luke does on Tatooine.
 
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