Ryujin
Legend
That's something that I've commented on many times (a few of them here). When an original work that inspires many gets no love and then finally gets a movie deal, it looks like it's ripping off all the ones that came after it.IMO, that was one of the film's problems - quite a lot of it looked derivative of other sci-fi and fantasy films, because as you say the DNA was found elsewhere. The circle of inspiration had become complete.