Remarkably Similar

Lately I have seen some movies and series getting released with very similar yet unaffiliated plots to books that I’ve read. The one that isn’t really that close but just reminded me of the book is Dreamworks ad for their new movie “Yeti”, a young girl finds herself befriending a magical yeti and running/hiding from scientists that want it. Besides the characters being of similar looks, I mean big white yeti with small dark haired girl and the same basic plot I think the movie will otherwise deviate from the graphic novel Abigail and the Snowman. I don’t think Dreamworks was trying to copy though since it is a not very big book and there has been a recent bump in Sasquatch and yeti movies lately. Next a bit more obvious Disney’s new cartoon “Go Away Unicorn” about a young brown haired girl who finds herself in charge of a real unicorn. The only difference I can see between this and the very popular Phoebe and her Unicorn is that in the Disney cartoon the Unicorn is a guy and fat. I mean I am sure the show has different plots but it is such an obvious copy of a popular series did they not get the rights or did they even try first? Finally the last and definitely closest copy is the new series by Netflix “I am Mother”. In a post apocalyptic bunker the last viable embryos are stored waiting to be grown by the pre programmed robot, the first one is a girl who never gets a name from the bot who grows up happy then one day an invader who looks a lot like her breaks in and challenges everything the now woman has ever been taught. This isn’t almost exactly the plot of book one in the Search for Wondla trilogy. I watched the trailer and even has scenes that are just like description in Search for Wondla by Tony Diterlizzi such as when the main character Eva Nine was little she stuck stickers all over her robot Muther. But while in Wondla she doesn’t meet another human till the end of book one and I don’t want to give spoilers but she does meet someone who looks just like her in book two. But it looks like the series just took Tony’s wonderfully clever and insightful plot and made a stereotypical future horror show. In the end though I’d rather have these odd similarity then the actual books being murdered.

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