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Was the Idea Behind Prison Break Stolen?

by Aaron

Was the Idea Behind Prison Break Stolen?
That’s the question that’s being asked…

Two brothers Bob and Don Hughes are claiming that they wrote a similar story about their lives and shopped it to FOX, but were denied. A little while later FOX came out with Prison Break. The brothers say that it is very similar to what their screenplay was like.

In an article on Pitch.com, the two brothers were interviewed:

An Excerpt:

The Pitch: Fellas, what’s going on here?

Don: We wrote a manuscript about our escape, about one innocent brother being incarcerated and me breaking him out and about us being on the run. And then here comes Prison Break, and it’s identical to our story. We watch each week and just keep picking out similarities.

Bob: [In a recent episode], they had one of the brothers pretending to be an FBI agent. Don had done that in one [fictional] part of our story. One of the characters in our script is [airplane hijacker] D.B. Cooper. Then there are the references to a bank robbery, the Mafia, the president of the United States. It just goes on and on.

So what do I think of this? It does seem similar, but later on the interviewer points out a great point. That a lot of these are very general references. I just don’t see that these guys really have a case for anything.

But, I do think that FOX will end up paying them enough money to keep quiet. That’s what usually seems to happen in these kinds of cases.

We’ll see…

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