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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdavis" data-source="post: 1111561" data-attributes="member: 8704">The World of Darkness stuff is pretty weak but the the movie storyline and the book storyline are pretty much exactly the same thing and that is where they will get them, and don't give me the Romeo and & Juliet stuff as there was so much more going on in this that matches exactly. I mean you could go down the list and and the plot points for the movie matched the plot points for the book, they used several distinctive World of Darkness ideas such as the vampire coming out of torpor and the vampire/werewolf abomination (come on "a vampire/werewolf called a abomination which is hated by both sides" that's pretty much a sure give away it's been lifted from the book). I mean they pretty much went through and lifted the whole storyline from the book and just changed the genders of the two main characters. I know that a lot of people seem to have some sort of grudge against White Wolf here by all the "I hope they get whats coming to them" type post but this really isn't something frivolous they have a pretty solid case as far as the book storyline goes, yes it's all a Romeo and Juliet spin but you could say the same for every movie ever made and every book ever written where two people fall in love but are not allowed to be with each other. And yes you can go into the fact that the whole World of Darkness is cobbled together with lots of previously existing material, but good grief what gaming system isn't. Just because they got bits and pieces from here and there doesn't take away from the fact that they put all these bits and pieces together and made a very compley vision out of it, it also doesn't take away the fact that it looks like every major plot point in the movie was taken from somebody elses published story. The people who wrote the movie were not established screenwriters, this is their first script, it's a first time director and first time writers and they are also producing the movie and are also acting in the movie. This isn't some big budget Sony production, it's some under the radar production that Sony is involved in. Heck Kate Beckinsale is engaged to the director (whose past credits are: assistant props director for Independence Day and property assistant for Stargate). So these relatively unknown people show up with their first movie idea and want to write, direct, produce and act in the movie. Then the movie gets sued for stealing the storyline of a book as soon as ads for the movie start airing on TV, you got to wonder what exactly Sony's position on this will be?</blockquote>

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