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Over the last year, I've written a book with a distinctive basic concept* - let's say it's about a cowboy who is really an alien in disguise. I'd like to look for a publisher for it in the coming months. Over the weekend I've found out that there is an upcoming film that has basically the same fundamental concept (I suspect that my treatment of it will be more fantastical, but still).
Is this necessarily a bad thing? Will it be assumed that I've ripped off the other alien cowboy story? Does this even matter? I suspect the answer is "probably not" but I wonder how these things affect one another.
* I'm not going into details just because I don't know how I want to market this thing, whether I want to release it under a pseudonym and so on. It's not that I think anyone would "steal" it: I don't think writing works like that.
Is this necessarily a bad thing? Will it be assumed that I've ripped off the other alien cowboy story? Does this even matter? I suspect the answer is "probably not" but I wonder how these things affect one another.
* I'm not going into details just because I don't know how I want to market this thing, whether I want to release it under a pseudonym and so on. It's not that I think anyone would "steal" it: I don't think writing works like that.