I used to laugh at the couple who sued James Cameron for supposedly stealing their character for »Terminator 2«. Watching »Eagle Eye« this weekend, I came to think of that claim and how the creaters of »The Tower« now has the opportunity of earning big bucks.
Nah, of course I’m all for copying and borrowing and using old elements to build new stuff. But it was strange how »Eagle Eye« brought all those old memories back.
In the beginning of the 90s I watched a made-for-tv film called »The Tower«, where Paul Reiser played the white-collar desk slave Tony Minot. The office building where he worked was fully automated and a computer controlled all the operations. It also recorded all wrong-doings of the employees.
Poor Minot made numerous minor mistakes (parking in the wrong space, opening doors with a faulty access cards, using CPU time for composing music etc.) that were added together and made the computer consider him a security risk.
The plot of the movie was then basically him trying to get out of the building late one night while the computer tried to kill him using elevator doors, climate control and other tools at hand.
Watching »Eagle Eye«, I remembered the »Terminator 2« case. Maybe the producers of »Eagle Eye« should lawyer up in wait for the lawsuit that inevitably will come for them having stolen the concept »mega-lo-mania computer with lack of empathy tries to kill guy in building«?
By the way: I’d kill to re-watch »The Tower«. How can one get his hands on that today?
