Look at this trailer for this movie, which is going to be released Dec. 21, 2007. It’s called “P.S. I Love You.” It’s totally a rip-off of a Korean movie. Apparently, some woman wrote a book that was exactly like the Korean movie, which is called “The Letter.”
The movie is about a woman whose husband dies. Apparently, he had arranged a bunch of stuff for her to do through a series of letters he had written.
Here is the movie trailer:
…and the book cover:
Still looking for the Korean movie trailer but kinda having a hard time, consider the Korean movie was released in 1997. But check out the book that Cecelia Ahern wrote in 2004 and read the reviews on Amazon.com. Someone already mentions that the book and movie are exactly like the Korean version.
I just need to find out that these people bought the rights legally. Otherwise, a bitch needs to be sued. And by a bitch, I mean some bitches.
Edit: 9:41 p.m.
Here are some pictures from the Korean version of the movie, which was release in 1997. Apparently, according to Wikipedia (although trusting Wikipedia isn’t very smart), Cecelia Ahern wrote the book beginning in 2004. Can someone please tell me whether she bought the rights or whether she stole the idea?
October 20, 2007 at 10:42 am
I worked in Korea back in 96-97 and saw the movie “The Letter”. I remember saying to my wife that sooner or later Hollywood would snap up this beautiful love story. Little did I know that an Irish author would steal the story and commit plagiarism. I hope more people hear about this. Thanks.
November 3, 2007 at 9:04 pm
look this is a movie i never heard of and if it was a copy of the other than it would have been caught a long time ago and besides that you know that when a movie is made the story is changed. if you took the time to read the book you would know that and so therefore you must not have anyhting better to do than put this on the web. if there was a problem then word would have been out long ago about her copying another.
December 7, 2007 at 12:35 am
@ danielle
You’ve never heard of the movie we’re comparing the book and you’re accusing this blogger of not having ” anyhting better to do than put this on the web.”
As for using the fact Ahern would’ve gotten caught a “long time ago” if she had copied…well…I don’t know about that. “The Letter” itself is a fairly old movie and I don’t know how many people watched K-flicks back in the 90s, especially as this was before a time anyone took much interest in movies in Korea at all.
Yeah, it’s interesting how this issue has never come up before — but to say it’s not an issue simply b/c it never came up before is akin to saying a tree didn’t fall b/c nobody was around to see it fall. The fact nobody accused the book of being similar to this movie yet doesn’t make it an impossibility.
In any case – people are NOT saying the MOVIE VERSION is a copy as much as Ahern’s BOOK might have been a copy of “The Letter” so it doesn’t matter that “when a movie is made the story is changed.” Nobody thinks the MOVIE might have copied “The Letter” – just Ahern’s book itself.
Likewise, if you took time to watch the movie “you would know that and so therefore you must not have anyhting better to do than put this on the web.”