Folks, there are few things that grind my gears in life. I consider myself a relatively simple guy who tries not to complain (hey, you could be stranded in orbit, right?) but today I must make an exception.
Something I have always said is that any time there is a successful movie, there is someone else crying theft of the idea from them. This has happened with dozens and dozens of household movies, including The Terminator as possibly the best example. James Cameron was confronted by a sci-fi writer of an episode of The Outer Limits, I believe, for supposedly stealing the idea of a time traveling cyborg. Naturally Cameron was pissed off because of this, since he had never heard of the guy and had to pay him simply because he made a famous movie.
This one author who is crying sue happens to have almost nothing in common with this lady's awful books is claiming that because Gravity featured a female astronaut trapped in space in a work called "Gravity", it was stolen from her.
In that case, will we ever see a movie about a female astronaut in space again? I am almost positive that Dr. Ryan Stone was basically inspired by Ellen Ripley from Alien, and I doubt Cuaron has ever even heard of this lady.
If you reading this happen to be one of those people, SHAME ON YOU.
http://www.deadline.com/2014/04/warner-bros-gravity-lawsuit-rizzoli-isles-author-tess-gerritson/