Editing M. Night Shyamalan (section)

===Plagiarism accusations===
Robert McIlhinney, a Pennsylvanian screenwriter, sued Shyamalan in 2003, alleging similarities between ''Signs'' and his unpublished script ''Lord of the Barrens: The Jersey Devil''.<ref name="eonline.com">{{cite web |url=http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b48011_shyamalans_village_villainy.html |publisher=eonline.com |title=Shyamalan's "Village" Villainy? |date=August 10, 2004 |first=Josh |last=Grossberg |access-date=February 19, 2009 |archive-date=July 27, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090727153623/http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b48011_shyamalans_village_villainy.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="rediff.com">{{cite web |url=http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2004/aug/11night.htm |title=Is Shyamalan a copycat? |publisher=Rediff Entertainment Bureau |date=August 11, 2004 |access-date=February 19, 2009 |archive-date=August 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090803013740/http://inhome.rediff.com/movies/2004/aug/11night.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2004, [[Margaret Peterson Haddix]] claimed that ''The Village'' has numerous similarities to her young adult novel ''[[Running Out of Time (novel)|Running Out of Time]]'', prompting discussions with publisher Simon & Schuster about filing a lawsuit.<ref name="eonline.com"/><ref name="rediff.com"/><ref name="ew.com">{{cite news |url=https://ew.com/article/2004/08/10/author-mulls-lawsuit-over-village/ |title=It Takes a Village |publisher=[[Entertainment Weekly]] |first=Gary |last=Susman |date=August 10, 2004 |access-date=September 9, 2011 |archive-date=October 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022064704/http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,679258,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In response to both allegations, Disney and Shyamalan's production company Blinding Edge issued statements calling the claims "meritless".<ref name="ew.com"/>

[[Orson Scott Card]] has claimed that many elements of ''The Sixth Sense'' were plagiarized from his novel ''[[Lost Boys (novel)|Lost Boys]]'', although he has said that enough had been changed that there was no point in suing.<ref>{{citation |url= http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/reviews/everything/2004-08-08.shtml |title= Infringement, Watts, Plum, Ringworld, and Even More Books |first= Orson Scott |last= Card |publisher= Hatrack River (hatrack.com) |date= August 8, 2004 |access-date= May 30, 2016 |archive-date= June 20, 2016 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160620045333/http://www.hatrack.com/cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/reviews/everything/2004-08-08.shtml |url-status= live }}</ref>