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Revision as of 17:20, 2 April 2014
- Good news, I finished my script!
- I know, I've got it on my desk!
- Uh, no you don’t, because I have it on my desk.
- No, it's right here, Capote by Dan—
A 2003 conversation between screenwriter Douglas McGrath
and film producer Bingham Ray regarding McGrath's screenplay
for Infamous mixed up with Capote by Dan Futterman.[1]
Twin films[2] are films with the same, or very similar, plot produced and/or released at the same time in two different studios. This may result in a race between the two productions on first distributing the film to audiences.[3]
Sometimes there are three or more films released at the same time.[4]
Twin films may be the result of industrial espionage, a symptom of dearth of ideas, film makers moving between studios or that the same screenplay is sent to several film studios. Another explanation is that films often deal with current topics: comets, volcano eruptions, reality TV, 9/11 terror attack or the 500 year anniversary of Columbus's discoveries.[3]
Producer Bingham Ray recalls a conversation where the screenwriter of the 2006 Truman Capote biopic Infamous phoned to announce that his script had been finished. Ray said "I know, I've got it on my desk!" before realising that he actually had the screenplay to Capote, a biopic by a different writer.[1]
Examples
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Example of twin films:[1][5][6][7][8][9][10]
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964) and Fail-Safe (1964)[citation needed]
- Iron Eagle (1986) and Top Gun (1986)[6]
- Platoon (1986) and Full Metal Jacket (1987)[5]
- Short Circuit (1986) and *batteries not included (1987)[10]
- Dangerous Liaisons (1988) and Valmont (1989)[1][5]
- Oliver & Company (1988) and All Dogs Go To Heaven (1989)[11]
- K-9 (1989) and Turner & Hooch (1989)[5]
- Lambada (1990) and The Forbidden Dance (1990)[citation needed]
- Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Robin Hood (1991)[5]
- 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992) and Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)[5]
- Jurassic Park (1993) and Carnosaur (1993)[7]
- Tombstone (1993) and Wyatt Earp (1994)[5]
- Terminal Velocity (1994) and Drop Zone (1994)[citation needed]
- Braveheart (1995) and Rob Roy (1995)[5]
- Powder (1995) and Phenomenon (1996)[9]
- Babe (1995) and Gordy (1995)[citation needed]
- Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Strange Days (1995)[9]
- Showgirls (1995) and Striptease (1996)[citation needed]
- Independence Day (1996) and The Arrival (1996)[9]
- Dante's Peak (1997) and Volcano (1997)[1][5]
- Kundun (1997) and Seven Years in Tibet (1997)[5]
- Prefontaine (1997) and Without Limits (1998)[5]
- Antz (1998) and A Bug's Life (1998)[5]
- Armageddon (1998) and Deep Impact (1998)[1][5]
- Saving Private Ryan (1998) and The Thin Red Line (1998)[5]
- The Truman Show (1998) and EDtv (1999)[5]
- Deep Rising (1998) and Virus (1999)[7]
- End of Days (1999) and Stigmata (1999)[5]
- Entrapment (1999) and The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)[5]
- Scary Movie (2000) and Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (2000)[5]
- Mission to Mars (2000) and Red Planet (2000)[5]
- Wonder Boys (2000) and Finding Forrester (2000)[5]
- U-571 (2000) and Enigma (2001)[10]
- Heist (2001) and The Score (2001)[5]
- Finding Nemo (2003) and Shark Tale (2004)[5]
- Garden State (2004) and Elizabethtown (2005)[5]
- Chasing Liberty (2004) and First Daughter (2004)[6]
- The Cave (2005) and The Descent (2005)[5]
- Madagascar (2005) and The Wild (2006)[5]
- Flightplan (2005) and Red Eye (2005)[5]
- Capote (2005) and Infamous (2006)[1][5]
- United 93 (2006) and World Trade Center (2006)[5]
- Beerfest (2006) and Beer League (2006)[citation needed]
- The Prestige (2006) and The Illusionist (2006)[5]
- Happy Feet (2006) and Surf's Up (2007)[5]
- Déjà Vu (2006) and Next (2007)[8]
- Bottle Shock (2008) and Judgment of Paris[5]
- Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008) and Repo Men (2010)[citation needed]
- The Road (2009) and The Book of Eli (2010)[8]
- Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009) and Observe and Report (2009)[10]
- Adventureland (2009) and Skateland (2010)[12]
- Despicable Me (2010) and MegaMind (2010)[citation needed]
- Official Halloween Parody (2011) and Halloween: XXX Parody (2011)[13]
- Centurion (2010) and The Eagle (2011)[citation needed]
- Skyline (2010) and Battle: Los Angeles (2011)[citation needed]
- No Strings Attached (2011) and Friends with Benefits (2011)[citation needed]
- Mirror Mirror (2012) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)[citation needed]
- Killing Pablo and Escobar[5]
- Seal Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden (2012) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012)[citation needed]
- Battleship (2012) and American Warship (2012)[citation needed]
- Movie 43 and Inappropriate Comedy (2013)[citation needed]
- Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and White House Down (2013)[citation needed]
- Oblivion (2013) and After Earth (2013)[citation needed]
- Dom Hemingway (2013) and Filth (2013 film) (2013)[citation needed]
- A Hijacking (2012) and Captain Phillips (2013)[14]
- The Legend of Hercules (2014) and Hercules (2014)[citation needed]
- Divergent (2014) and The Giver (2014)[citation needed]
- Cheap Thrills (2013) and 13 Sins (2014)[citation needed]
Example of three or more similar films:
- Surrogates (2009), Gamer (2009) and Avatar (2009)[4]
- 18 Again! (1988), Big (1988) and Vice Versa (1988)[4] also Like Father Like Son (1987)[8]
- The Matrix (1999), The Thirteenth Floor (1999) and eXistenZ (1999)[5] also Dark City (1998)[8]
- DeepStar Six (1989), Leviathan (1989) and The Abyss (1989) also The Evil Below (1989), Lords of the Deep (1989)[6] and The Rift (1989)
- The Zodiac (2006), Zodiac (2007) and Curse of the Zodiac (2007)[15]
- Rapture-Palooza (2013), This is the End (2013), and The World's End (2013)[citation needed]
- The Double (2013) and Enemy (2013) and The Face of Love (2014)[citation needed]
Other meanings
The term twin films has also been used for films produced by the same production company with the purpose of telling the same story from two different points of view:
- Anatomy of a Marriage (1964) using the same cast, telling the same story from two different point of views[16]
- Flags of Our Fathers (2006) and Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)[17]
It has also been used for films produced with the purpose of making the same film in two different languages:[18]
- Whispering City and La Forteresse (1947), same director with different sets of actors speaking English or French
- Orions belte and Orion's Belt (1985), two directors but same set of actors speaking Norwegian or English
- Raavan and Raavanan, using similar cast filming the scenes in both Hindi and Tamil
See also
- Mockbuster, direct-to-DVD films with similar titles and/or theme as blockbuster films,[19] created with the apparent intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of the major film and are often made with a low budget.
References
- ^ a b c d e f g John Seabrook. "Tru, Two", The New Yorker, 25 September 2006. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ Jasper Rees. "Hooray for Bollywood", Evening Standard, 12 October 2001. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ a b Henrik Arvidsson. "Först till kvarn i Drömfabriken" Dagens Nyheter, 11 July 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2011. (In Swedish)
- ^ a b c Fredrik Strage. "Tvillingfilmer resultatet av ängsliga filmbolag", Dagens Nyheter, 28 September 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2011. (In Swedish)
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag Henrik Arvidsson. "Tvillingfilmer vi minns", Dagens Nyheter, 11 July 2008. Retrieved 22 June 2011. (In Swedish)
- ^ a b c d "11 Damn Near Identical Movies That Were Released at the Same Time", 11points.com, 13 March 2009. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ a b c "Double Headers", mutantreviewers.com. Retrieved 22 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d e "Twin Films: The Definitive List Part #1", the-way-we-came-before.blogspot.com, 7 February 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Twin Films: The Definitive List Part #2", the-way-we-came-before.blogspot.com, 7 February 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Twin Films: The Definitive List Part #3", the-way-we-came-before.blogspot.com, 7 February 2011. Retrieved 23 June 2011.
- ^ "Dueling Movies". TV Tropes. Retrieved 8 June 2013.
- ^ Henry Stewart (May 11, 2011). "Skateland: It's No Adventureland (or Saturday Night Fever, or Boogie Nights...)". The L Magazine. Retrieved October 30, 2013.
- ^ William S. Wilson (October 31, 2011). "Halloween Havoc: Dueling Halloween Porn Parodies". Video Junkie Strikes Back from Beyond the Grave. Retrieved November 30, 2012.
- ^ [1]
- ^ The Aftermath
- ^ Bosley Crowther. "My Days with Jean Marc Screen: Participants Testily to a Broken Marriage:Twin Films by Cayatte at Two Theaters Charrier and Miss Nat Star as Couple", New York Times, 27 October 1964. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ "With twin films, Japan and US let go of Iwo Jima scars", breitbart.com, 21 October (2005?). Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ Associated Press. "Rai calls twin films tough challenge", LJWorld.com, 9 October 2009. Retrieved 24 June 2011.
- ^ Rolf Potts. "The New B Movie" The New York Times Magazine, 7 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2009.