Inventive and original scriptwriting

I visited the action trailer section on IMDb today. In the top six videos, four stood out with their original thinking. This is taken from their description:

The Prince
A retired assassin is drawn back into the life he gave up when his daughter is kidnapped. To rescue her, he must confront his former rival.

The Equalizer
A former black ops commando who faked his death for a quiet life in Boston comes out of his retirement to rescue a young girl and finds himself face to face with Russian gangsters.

The November Man
An ex-CIA operative is brought back in on a very personal mission and finds himself pitted against his former pupil in a deadly game involving high level CIA officials and the Russian president-elect.

A Walk Among the Tombstones
Ex-NYPD cop Matt Scudder now works as an unlicensed private investigator operating just outside the law. When Scudder reluctantly agrees to help a heroin trafficker hunt down the men who kidnapped and then brutally murdered his wife, the PI learns that this is not the first time these men have committed this sort of twisted crime…nor will it be the last.


So basically this is the same movie, right? All opening almost within one month of each other.

And studios wonder why people aren't paying to see movies anymore...

Although people do still pay, yet they're whining.



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