Originally Posted by
Flying Helmut
It has always been the case in Hollywood, and also in other Studios, that a script is circulated around by the writer, trying to get someone to pick it up, so very quickly everyone becomes aware of it.
When a company agrees to buy the rights to it, it is then "off the market" to the others, some of whom may well have started spending money on their own background prep in case they were to become the eventual "owners" of the project.
If a Studio/Company has enough interest, or capital already invested, then then can only progress if the obtain a new, different script from another writer.
Thus we see 'groupings' of similarly-themed films being worked on/released at around the same time..............
The most obvious one I recall is the "Baby" grouping, when cinemas received "Look Who's Talking", "Baby Boom", "She's Having a Baby", "Raising Arizona" and a couple more all within a very short space of time.
"300" also spawned "Gates of Fire", which was subsequently delayed.
There are numerous other examples.
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