Recycled ideas in sci fi

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Hunger games is basically the same as an episode of blake's 7

Alien had been done before in doctor who

Any more?

 

[PhilSAFC]

Time travel

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Time travel

Could be the cause

 

[Barnacle Boy]

Is that the boring who does nowt but post REM videos at 3am?

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Terminator also partially nicked from Blake's 7

 

[Billy Rocket]

Hunger games is basically the same as an episode of blake's 7

Alien had been done before in doctor who

Any more?

Alien supposedly ripped off The Voyage Of The Space Beagle enough for Fox to settle out of court.

Also, It! The Terror From Beyond Space is supposed to have been shown to the Alien production team to ensure they didn't copy too much of it!

 

[Cockney Mackem]

The Tomorrow People borrowed bits and bobs from Alfred Bester's The Stars My Destination, which in turn hugely lifted the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo

 

[MattyM 09/109]

Dredd is a rip off of an old comic

 

[Phil_Harmonic]

Star Wars was based on The Hidden Fortress iirc.

 

[Billy Rocket]

Terminator also partially nicked from Blake's 7

Cameron had to pay damages to an Outer Limits episode author. Cant remember which episode.

 

[chriswallace85]

Is that the boring
who does nowt but post REM videos at 3am?

 

[dickie mc rich]

Cameron had to pay damages to an Outer Limits episode author. Cant remember which episode.

Even credits it in the errm credits

 

[dixonsafc]

The Man vs Machine conflict, either literal or metaphorical.

 

[Arkle]

Star Wars was based on The Hidden Fortress iirc.

It was "heavily influenced by" The Hidden Fortress, as George Lucas put it.

 

[Icarebecauseyoudo]

Is that the boring who does nowt but post REM videos at 3am?

Tbf he has a sideline in dogging in the lake district

 

[The Raven]

Life on other planets

 

[MunkyHeed]

Jurassic Park ripped off Westworld (but written by the same fella, so may not count)

 

[Arkle]

Jurassic Park ripped off Westworld (but written by the same fella, so may not count)

Man's idea works. Man repeats idea with cowboys. The old classic!

 

[Fetch Fletch]

Time travel

I said that first!

 

[ajthemackem]

Arrival is essentially Contact.