Posted by Neil at 209.245.186.150 on August 07, 2001 at 14:20:07:
In Reply to: Re: He STOLE Mars Attacks! too. Coincidence??? posted by Shaved Bush chewie on August 07, 2001 at 12:20:16:
: Anyone else find it funny that someone who doesn't read comics is so involved in Comic movies...batman, mars attacks, hmm...
No.
MARS ATTACKS! isn't based on any comic book. They were based – to the extent it was based on anything – on the original trading card set, which Burton acknowledges having collected.
Besides, did he say he's never read comic books or anything?
Anyway, do we really think he came up with either of those endings? He didn't write the screenplays. I understand that he may have told the writer to write it, but there's no particular reason to "credit" him with them.
The MARS ATTACKS! ending is, one way or the other, remarkably similar to the ending of ATTACK OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, which precedes the '80s altogether. I'd think Stern would have been riffing off that in the first place, so…