Frank Herbert, the creator of Dune, said that Star Wars ripped off Dune.Was he right? If he was right, why didnt he sue George Lucas? If someone made an insane amount of money ripping off of something I created, I would had sued for sure.
Star Wars ripped off Dune in much the same way The Lion King ripped off Hamlet>chosen one on a desert planet fights space empireno more accounts for plagiarism than>king killed by his brother to take his place only to be defeated by the rightful heir
I don't think there's anything legally actionable about whatever Star Wars may have "ripped off". A common saying is that you can copyright expressions of ideas but not ideas themselves. Artistically speaking I don't think there are that many similarities either that aren't common sci-fi tropes.
>>218989253George Lucas ripped off a lot of shit when he made Star Wars, the movie is pretty much just a collection of all the things he liked. It doesn't really matter though, while Star Wars is a better film than Dune is a novel, both were run into the ground and stripped of any artistic integrity.
>>218989253Yes. Blatantly so.
>>218989253Yeah, he took some ideas but after the first movie it doesn't really matter anymore. Only the first dune book is good anyway.
>>218990667>Star Wars is a better film than Dune is a novelSmoothest brain today
>>218991943Nta but the original star wars is indeed better than the first dune novel
>>218991943By itself the first Star Wars is a great movie. Dune was always mid as fuck.
>>218991943Dune had a bunch of great ideas and couldn't manage combine them into a great book.
>>218989253>Frank Herbert, the creator of Dune, said that Star Wars ripped off Dune.>Was he right?Looks that way.
>>218992926
>>218992926>pursued by enormous sand creaturesWhere was that in Star Wars?
>>218993038Star Wars: Tremors
