"Eve" Creator Bows to "Hack/Slash"

Coming from the entertainment side of things, I can tell you this much. If he is opportunistic, he's a genius. But I have clients that I work with who are far too arrogant to step forward. The general response from alot of these people would simply be something along the lines of "Well, I created this a long time ago." They would refuse to acknowledge the other creator and his work.

But what separates Brian and makes him look good, opportunistic or not, is that he clearly gives praise to Tim, his works and acknowledges him first AND states to change direction. There will always be doubt from people, and it seems as though that no matter what new information were to come out, you've made your mind which is fine.

I am quite certain that he has made some enemies amongst his inner circle because of this. His investors really don't care about originality. They want to get it done and make money and that's all. Brian really did seem to write from his heart because I doubt his publicist would allow him to bow down like that. It was a very humbling move on his part.

I am telling you that from my all my years experience, I have received an enormous amount of similar script ideas and I know alot of them have not heard of Hack/Slash nor Eve. I'm certain I will read others similar. And yes, Asylum will copy this for sure. But they won't give any acknowledgement to anybody. And they certainly won't give a statement changing direction on creativitiy. I do consider that he's being very classy for this statement, and sure maybe a little opportunistic for his other film. Its a business and Brian has to make a living somehow.

You seem to be missing my point. I'm not claiming that he didn't come up with the idea on his own. I'm saying his statement is bullshit spin. Every film he's made is his own film. He's written and directed every single one. That means he's turned down every single film that been offered to him, which I don't find likely since he could always rewrite them if he found them too similar to something else.

You're also assuming things based on the names that appeared in his films. You have no idea if Elaine Hendrix "jumped" to his next film. Names in movies don't really mean anything. Dourif appeared in the Hazing, he's not above appearing in low budget shlock. To put another way, a friend of mine just had Clint Howard and Daniel Von Bargen appear in his last film, whose budget was too small to even talk about.

The main point though is that he's not talking about going back to the drawingboard. Look at his words very carefully. As I pointed out he said he wouldn't proceed unless he could make the film different enough from Hack/Slash. But he's already state the films are basically completely different except for some minor similarities. The film doesn't even go into production for another year as his current film is still in post. He has plenty of time to change the film if he wanted to. He has no intention of halting production and he's not endangering his career in anyway. He's using his statement to keep the story going and to promote Eve and his current film.

I've worked in TV and film for 8 years now. I have no illusions that people come up with similar ideas all the time. But as I said else where, the first thing that happened when the film was announced was people started comparing it to Hack/Slasher. So, I just highly doubt that no one ever pointed to Metcalf before that his script sounded a lot like Hack/Slash before now and that he was completely unaware of its existence. I pitched a movie about the Grim Reaper several years ago and I kept hearing that is was similar to Dead Like Me where ever I went. I had never seen the show but I still knew of its existence, just like I'm sure Metcalf was with H/S.

"I like it when they lie still like that."