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December 06, 2004
New Twist to The Matrix
I just read this story about a woman who reportedly was responsible for the original ideas behind the Matrix and Terminator franchises. (I originally got to the story from a post on BoingBoing.) It's very interesting that not much has been made about this story -- it appears to have run in the newspaper of Salt Lake Community College in late October -- as it involves two of the biggest SF film franchises around.
This story throws an interesting twist on the whole "the Wachowski brothers ripped off / were heavily influenced by Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell to make The Matrix" argument. According to the news report, the script on which The Matrix was based, called "The Third Eye," was copyrighted in 1981, fourteen years before Oshii's film. I mean, I'm sure Oshii never saw the script for "The Third Eye," but it would be interesting to read it to see the similarities among it, Ghost in the Shell, and The Matrix.
Posted by brianruh at December 6, 2004 09:57 AM