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Extremely odd co-incidence...

posted 8 years ago by gollumsmeagolrocks
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So kind of funny yet weird story for you all

I thought this was an adaptation of the Cloak And Dagger comic book characters by Marvel. I was wrong. And yet, there is a striking similarity...

For one, their are two main characters, one cloak and one dagger. The comic characters were introduced in Peter Parker, Spectacular Spider-Man # 62 from 1982. Now, this film contains no mention of Spider-Man, as it is not related to the Marvel comics characters of the same name...

And yet, it's written by a guy named Tom Holland.
Not THEE Tom Holland, who's... you know... famous for playing Spider-Man, but some random guy named Tom Holland.

~NW~

[–] virgiltx 8 years ago

It was based on previous movie versions of a short story by Cornell Woolrich called "The Boy Who Cried Murder".
- The Window (1949): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042046/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
- The Boy Cried Murder (1966): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060185/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

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