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   OPINION 
   Those Chechen Rebels Stole My Idea
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   By Michael Bay
   Director
   
   Ever since wrapping Pearl Harbor, I've been looking for a killer
   follow-up project. Something with all the elements--drama, tension,
   action, and danger. Terrorists are hot right now, so I was kicking
   around some ideas and came up with a treatment for a terrorist
   thriller. In it, religious or political extremists of some sort lay
   siege to a theater and threaten to kill everyone inside unless their
   demands are met.
   
   Sound familiar? Well, it should. It was all over the fucking front
   page three weeks ago. Those Chechen rebels who seized that theater in
   Moscow stole my idea. They must've somehow broken into my house,
   gotten on my computer, and stolen my treatment for what would have
   been the biggest movie event since Armageddon.
   
   It's bad enough when studio suits take your idea and claim it as their
   own, but it's even worse when it's a band of heavily armed insurgents
   halfway around the world. I'd love to sue those assholes for
   plagiarism, but my lawyer couldn't find their numbers anywhere in his
   Rolodex. They're probably not even Guild.
   
   What's worse, those rebel bastards didn't even do my idea justice. If
   they had such a hard-on for my story, why would they change the most
   bankable elements of it? Where was the hero working on the inside?
   Where was the experimental Apache CX-150 helicopter that hadn't been
   fully tested? And where was the veteran cop trying to get through the
   ordeal while fighting off flashbacks of that eerily similar rescue
   raid back in 1986? The best they could come up with was a 3-year-old
   hostage running around screaming? Puh-lease. Admittedly, they made
   themselves more villainous by firing on the kid, but
   really--imperiling a child is such a hack move.

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