7 Movie Parodies That Somehow Happened For Real

4. Adaptation "Guessed" Identity's Plot Twist

Charlie Kaufman's Oscar-winning classic Adaptation might not immediately scream "parody," but with its sharp critique of conventional Hollywood genre fare, culminating in a finale that's literally a Hollywood ending, it absolutely is one.

One of the movie's more memorable scenes sees Charlie Kaufman's (Nicolas Cage) goofball twin brother Donald (also Cage, obviously) writing a spec script for a trashy thriller called The 3.

The film would feature a twist ending where the three central characters are revealed to be fabrications in the mind of a serial killer suffering from multiple personality disorder.

Charlie hilariously tells him, "The only idea more overused than serial killers is multiple personality," and so the slating of unimaginative, low-effort psychological thrillers was complete.

Until Columbia Pictures, the very same studio behind Adaptation, released hit thriller Identity a few months later, which touted the very same plot twist, that the film's ten main characters are all imagined personalities in the mind of a mentally ill murderer. Well played, Columbia.