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Whose Prison Break Is It?

October 25, 2006

For four years in the 1960s, two brothers were on the run, fleeing authorities after a prison break at a juvenile facility. Robert Hughes, wrongfully incarcerated at 16, turned to older brother Donald, who helped him escape.

Sound familiar? Sound just like the plot of ''Prison Break''?

The Hughes brothers think so, too.

In a federal lawsuit, they say their agent sent Fox a manuscript in 2001 chronicling their experiences and the network wasn't interested. So they were surprised when, last fall, Fox began airing ''Prison Break.''

''It's a classic case of the rich trampling on the poor,'' Donald Hughes, 63, told The Associated Press.

Comments

Scott Adams wrote:

I don't think any of us are shocked by the idea that any network would try to swipe an idea and not pay for it. Usually they steal them form each other, though.

posted at October 25, 2006 05:08 PM

jj wrote:

come on it's fox, they have a reputation of stealing show ideas because the idea they come up with on their own are terrible.

posted at October 26, 2006 03:26 PM

Kristal V. wrote:

I don't believe those guys who said their lives are just like "Prison Break". I seen and heard dozens of cases just like that one. Some show or movie becomes a huge hit and then out no where, someone says it was their idea. I think people need to come up with their own ideas and stop trying to getting from someone if that person idea sounds like something that happened to them.

posted at October 30, 2006 12:39 PM

jaye wrote:

Hey Scott, slow down there. Nothing has been proven. Including actual copying (ideas, such as guy springs innocent brother out of prison, are not protected) or access. that's right, they have to prove both that real copying was done and that the people behind Prison Break could have had access to the script to do any copying. But for all we know, the script was trashed when they said no. or dumped in some closet of other rejected scripts that caught fire six months later, before the PB creators were anywhere around Fox

posted at November 11, 2006 08:51 PM

Don Hughes wrote:

The Hughes script was completed in 2000 and edited by a respected editor of a newspaper...There are any number of witnesses that read the manuscript five years before Prison Break "came along" The manuscript includes one innocent brother being broke out by the other......DB Cooper is a part of the script as is the mob, the FBI, and over forty other similarities...What are the odds of two scripts haveing two brothers and DB Cooper and the Prison Break in the same manuscript? Easier to get struck by lighting....Access? Well the Literary agent that is involved does a great deal of "business" with FOX...And the story is true..There are newspaper accounts of the Hughes brothers escapades going back over forty years..........there is NO doubt that Fox lifted the Prison Break show from Don and Bob Hughes.

posted at November 21, 2006 11:03 PM

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