We live in the age of replicas, look-alikes, and stolen ideas. It feels like everything good has been done already, whether it’s a song, a painting, or a clever TV commercial. The fear of being unoriginal is stronger than ever if you’re trying to produce something entirely new.
And while some try their best to come up with fresh ideas, others decide there’s no point in trying too hard. This time, we are looking at some examples of copycats in the film industry, where movie posters are everything but original.
From the suspiciously similar Babel (2006) and Savages (2012) poster designs, to the look-alike Inception (2010) vs. Geostorm (2017), these can’t be just mere coincidences… or can they? Whoever came up with these poster ideas surely has no problem with being unoriginal, and this may as well be somewhat of a liberating feeling.
(h/t: Letterboxd users Bri and Malaine)
#1 Shrooms (2007) vs. Singular Cay (2012)
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#2 Unforgiven (1992) vs. Puss In Boots (2011)
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#3 Die Hard 2 (1990) vs. Speed (1994)
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#4 Blue Ruin (2013) vs. Happy Hunting (2017)
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#5 Gravity (2013) vs. Ad Astra (2019)
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#6 Cats & Dogs (2001) vs. Captain America: Civil War (2016)
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#7 Ex Machina (2014) vs. A.i. Rising (2018)
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#8 Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015) vs. Dark Phoenix (2019)
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#9 Winter’s Bone (2010) vs. A Dark Place (2018)
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#10 Drive Angry (2011) vs. Breaking Loose (2014)
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#11 Black Swan (2010) vs. Ghostland (2018)
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#12 Anatomy Of A Murder (1959) vs. Clockers (1995)
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#13 Shrek (2001) vs. The Incredibles (2004)
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#14 The Ruins (2007) vs. Wake Wood (2008)
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#15 Hot Pursuit (1987) vs. Disturbia (2007)
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#16 Babel (2006) vs. Savages (2012)
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#17 The Breakfast Club (1985) vs. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986)
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#18 No Country For Old Men (2007) vs. Fright Night (2011)
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#19 Shame (2011) vs. The Delinquent Season (2018)
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#20 The Night Eats The World (La Nuit A Dévoré Le Monde) (2018) vs. The Rental (2020)
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#21 Mystic River (2003) vs. Dusk (2010)
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#22 Straw Dogs (1971) vs. Cold Fish (2010)
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#23 Lolita (1962) vs. American Strays (1996)
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#24 Vampire (2011) vs. Forgotten (2017)
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#25 The Ides Of March (2011) vs. Nancy (2018)
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#26 The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996) vs. The Kill Team (2013)
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#27 Death Ship (1980) vs. Ghost Ship (2002)
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#28 Body Snatchers (1993) vs. Berberian Sound Studio (2012)
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#29 Inception (2010) vs. Geostorm (2017)
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#30 Deepwater Horizon (2016) vs. Murder On The Orient Express (2017)
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