Simon Dillon
1 min readMar 6, 2021

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Kubrick once said "Ideas are a trap. You need a story." I agree.

Also, I can think of three occasions where a case of great-minds-think-alike meant I had the same idea as someone else.

When I was a student, I made a short film that had the same premise as Minority Report. I didn't realise, as I hadn't read Philip K Dick's story (and the Spielberg film hadn't been made at that point).

More annoyingly, I had the same idea as the one in The Purge (albeit in a slightly different context) ten years before that film came out, and I had written a feature screenplay for it.

More recently still, I wrote a short story about a corrupt televangelist who gets blackmailed. Then I saw The Royal Gemstones, and they had a similar idea in the opening episode.

Still, I don't mind. The ideas were well-executed (especially Spielberg's execution of Minority Report).

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Simon Dillon
Simon Dillon

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Novelist and Short Story-ist. Film and Book Lover. If you cut me, I bleed celluloid and paper pulp. Blog: www.simondillonbooks.wordpress.com

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