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Kaleva

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8. The Birdbox was published in 2014. The screenplay for A Quiet Place was written in 2016

Reply to Yosemito (Reply #5)

Sun Jan 13, 2019, 02:10 AM

Jan 2019

"Malerman wrote the rough draft of Bird Box prior to the release of the 2008 M. Night Shyamalan film The Happening and the 2009 film The Road "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_Box

"A Quiet Place (film)

The film entered development when Beck and Woods began developing a story that would lead into the film. In July 2016, Krasinski read a spec script and was hired to direct and rewrite the script in March the following year. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Quiet_Place_(film)

I really can't find any evidence that one was based or copied from the other or vice versa.

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