12-14-2010, 04:07 PM
Please forgive the late revival of this thread, but I found something really neat about this film...
There was a spanish language film released in Argentina in 1986 called 'Hombre Mirando al Sudeste" (Man Facing Southeast). This film apparently is remarkably similar to "K-Pax" and its makers did indeed sue, although they eventually dropped the suit. Here's the wikipedia excerpt:
Complaints of plagiarism of the film Man Facing Southeast were made by its makers, and Gene Brewer and others connected with the K-PAX film were subsequently sued in November 2001, the complaint was later withdrawn and Gene Brewer went on to release a memoir exploring his inspiration for the books called 'Creating K-PAX - or Are You Sure You Want To Be A Writer?'.
Here's Gene Brewer's website, a quick look will show you what was behind his book: http://www.genebrewer.com/othernovels.html
You'll see that this writer claims to have never heard of the previous film and has had a sincere struggle with the lawsuit, prompting him to write a whole book about exactly where his inspiration came from.
I'm compelled to believe the story. It looks like the same movie was made twice, nearly fifteen years apart.
How about that? Looks like this story is indeed star born!
There was a spanish language film released in Argentina in 1986 called 'Hombre Mirando al Sudeste" (Man Facing Southeast). This film apparently is remarkably similar to "K-Pax" and its makers did indeed sue, although they eventually dropped the suit. Here's the wikipedia excerpt:
Complaints of plagiarism of the film Man Facing Southeast were made by its makers, and Gene Brewer and others connected with the K-PAX film were subsequently sued in November 2001, the complaint was later withdrawn and Gene Brewer went on to release a memoir exploring his inspiration for the books called 'Creating K-PAX - or Are You Sure You Want To Be A Writer?'.
Here's Gene Brewer's website, a quick look will show you what was behind his book: http://www.genebrewer.com/othernovels.html
You'll see that this writer claims to have never heard of the previous film and has had a sincere struggle with the lawsuit, prompting him to write a whole book about exactly where his inspiration came from.
I'm compelled to believe the story. It looks like the same movie was made twice, nearly fifteen years apart.
How about that? Looks like this story is indeed star born!