Luc Besson Found Guilty of Escape from New York Plagarism — collider.com

Apparently there is such thing as blatantly ripping off another movie and being held accountable for it. The Fifth Element filmmaker Luc Besson took some flack for the 2012 sci-fi film Lockout, which he co-wrote and executive produced (but didn’t direct), when folks started pointing out how similar the film’s plot was to John Carpenter’s 1981 classic Escape from New York. One such person who found the similarities glaring was Carpenter himself, who sued Besson in court, and now the final ruling has come down in Carpenter’s favor.

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