Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Knocked Off?


Canadian Writer Rebecca Eckler is claiming that the premise for the new hit movie "Knocked Up" with Katherine Heigl is stolen from her acclaimed book titled...you guessed it..."Knocked Up".
"In a lengthy piece for Maclean's magazine, Eckler details similarities between her book and the film, in which an up-and-coming television reporter gets drunk at a party and then gets pregnant from a one-night stand.
Eckler notes that in her book, she's an up-and-coming newspaper reporter who gets drunk and "knocked up'' after celebrating at her engagement party.
Eckler, a former columnist for the National Post who now writes for The Globe and Mail, says she's hired a U.S. lawyer to go after writer/director Judd Apatow and Universal Pictures."
The only reason I'm posting this is because I read this book and it was GD hilarious. I haven't seen the movie but from the previews I have seen it doesn't seem to be the same story line, although I did not read her article in Mcleans either.
Moral of the story...read the book. It's good.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

that book was hilarious..Do you guys still have it because I wanted Bridgie to read it

JEWELS said...

I don't know...I know I don't maybe Liza does.