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branchandroot - Theme: Purple Haze by timeasmymeasure
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Date: Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:45 am (UTC)In 1996 his second novel, Spares, was released, the film rights to which were purchased by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks. While the rights lapsed, Dreamworks did produce The Island, whose plot had strong similarites to Spares, though Michael did not consider it worthwhile to pursue legal action over the similarities. He now considers it unlikely a Spares film will ever be made.[1]
The footnote gives the URL of a discussion on the MMS forum on his website, which I can't currently access.
Actually, it sounds as though Dreamworks wanted to make a movie with that theme, and when the rights to Spares lapsed, they simply remade an older film with a similar plot.