Comments on: Mark Millar on Why Matthew Vaughn Left DAYS OF FUTURE PAST

By: reveerb

reveerb — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 22:07:21 +0000

The Star Wars angle to this sounds like Millar started the rumor on Twitter and is just using at as hype for this project.

By: Joe S. Walker

Joe S. Walker — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 14:34:53 +0000

Stealing ideas from Mark Millar? That’s the intellectual equivalent of eating out of dustbins.

By: Middenface McNulty

Middenface McNulty — Thu, 08 Nov 2012 05:40:50 +0000

@justsaying

That’s amazing! I never knew that Ruyard Kipling wrote a book where a James Bond pastiche trains his own replacement!

What I find especially interesting is that James Bond wasn’t even invented until 50 YEARS after that book was published making Kipling a pioneer in the literary technique of referencing works that HAVEN’T EVEN BEEN CONCEIVED YET.

By: Aaron Poehler

Aaron Poehler — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:20:34 +0000

Millar’s ideas aren’t very original in the first place, so the chances someone’s already written a screenplay similar to anything he’s ever done are about 1 in 1.

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:02:12 +0000

This is the same guy who thinks it doesn’t matter if you end up getting paid more than you ever did for your work-for-hire stuff, it’s on the back end you’re “working for free”

By: justsaying

justsaying — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:11:23 +0000

A big of research on TV tropes shows Rudyard Kipling wrote Kim.
“The title character is a street urchin named Kimball Ohara (called Kim throughout the novel) who has been befriended by the Pathan horse trader and spy Mahbub Ali.”
Written in 1900.

By: justsaying

justsaying — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 19:08:22 +0000

Stealing your idea, really?!
Not like that isnt a trope.
The CHERUB series was all about this…except the agents did die and get replaced from time to time.

Bet TV Tropes has more examples here:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TeenSuperspy