9 Movies That Blatantly Ripped Off Video Games
2. The Girl With All The Gifts Ripped Off The Last Of Us
Here is a short plot synopsis, and based on this, guess which piece of fiction is being described:
A mutated fungal disease plunges humanity into a zombie apocalypse. Years pass after the initial outbreak and humanity is barley surviving. A little girl is discovered who is the key to creating the vaccine, but the procedure will kill her.
There are actually two correct answers to this riddle, The Last Of Us and a British horror movie called The Girl With All The Gifts. But is this a case of one medium ripping off another, or did these two strikingly similar stories coincidentally get developed around the same time?
The Girl With All The Gifts is a faithful adaptation of a novel by the same name that came out in June 2014. The Last Of Us was released the previous year in June 2013. It takes time to complete a novel, but considering the turnaround and the abundance of similarities, it's definitely worth comparing the two directly.