Was the film The Village based on a book or a true story or anything. I just find it interesting.
There’s a book called “Running Out of Time” by Margaret Peterson Haddix that has a similar storyline. None of the characters are the same, of course, and the situation is a little different, but it’s similar enough that I think there was a suit. It’s a young adult novel, but very well done, and it was one of my favorites when I was younger.
This is exactly what I thought of when I watched the movie. And it’s stupid, because this book enjoyed a spurt of popularity about 1 year before The Villiage was released. You think he’d rip off something no one was likely to recognize. Here’s an article about the possible lawsuit.