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So did M Night Shyamalan steal the idea for this movie from a novel?

posted 8 years ago by br-36199
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_Out_of_Time_(Haddix_novel)

Jessie Keyser is a 13-year-old girl from the village of Clifton, Indiana, in the 1840s. During a village-wide outbreak of diphtheria, Jessie's mother reveals it is actually 1996, and Clifton Village is a tourist attraction, a replica of a historical village.

[–] Ilyathe2nd (168) 2 years ago

Oh boy, seems familiar! However, that novel is a far more interesting way to deal with this story, so that should have been filmed instead of this. But it's less twist-endy, so that doesn't fit ol' Shamalama.