Already embroiled in a lawsuit accusing him of stealing plot elements in Signs, M. Night Shyamalan may have some more trouble brewing …
I first heard about the accusations that Shyamalan may have lifted the story of The Village thanks to this article posted on our discussion thread by Cat and though Shyamalan probably wishes this is a story that would just go away it doesn’t look very likely to happen …
According to Reuters the Simon & Schuster publishing house is prepping for a likely lawsuit against Shyamalan and Disney, accusing the director of stealing the basic story for The Village from the children’s novel Running Out Of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix. In the novel children are raised in what they believe is a 19th century town until an epidemic strikes and one of them has to strike out through the surrounding woods to get medicine. Yeah, I can see why they think Shyamalan may have borrowed a bit …
