# The Village

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-village/307513>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 8, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-village/307513 "2005-06-08T22:17:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daboman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@Daboman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daboman)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2005, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-village/307513/1 "2005-06-08T22:17:11Z")

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Was the film The Village based on a book or a true story or anything. I just find it interesting.

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**Author:** ![Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Mirror\_Image\_egamI\_rorriM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mirror_Image_egamI_rorriM)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-village/307513/2 "2005-06-09T00:17:24Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [June 9, 2005, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-village/307513/3 "2005-06-09T00:25:16Z")

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> [@Mirror Image egamI rorriM](#):
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> 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.

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](http://www.eonline.com/News/Items/0,1,14684,00.html) an article about the possible lawsuit.