What!?
So I can’t pen a cheap murder mystery wherein it turns out that the butler did it, because someone already wrote a tale that was similar?
Only way I can see to prove such a thing is if the author took his screenplay to the producers of “Nightcrawler” and tried to sell them the story... even so, it’s a difficult proposition unless the tales are nearly identical in all respects.
This isn’t particularly important to any religious faith. “Falling” is heavy R Rated. “Nightcrawler” however, was nominated for best original screenplay when in fact it was a knockoff. No question about it, it is a difficult proposition as Bobalu suggests.
Here is another link:
We’ll see what happens when someone takes on Hollywood.