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Tuesday, August 10, 2004

Literary legalities

Author Contemplating Lawsuit Over The Village

Apparently there are enough simlarities between the M Night Shyamalan film and Margaret Peterson Haddix' book, Running Out of Time (1995), published by Simon & Schuster and nominated for the Edgar mystery award, that fans wrote the author asking if she had sold the rights to Disney, who produced the film.

I haven't had a chance to look at either. Here's a summary (and another) of the book and a question guide. Likewise, here are summaries for the movie.

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