I recently watched the 2010 movie Devil, produced by M. Night Shyamalan. It's the first film in a trilogy he's producing based on some "Twilight Zone" type stories that he comes up with and then passes on to other writers and directors to complete. I was interested to find out that part of Night's inspiration for Devil came from Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None, which was adapted to the screen in 1945 and featured on Home Fry-ed Movies in February.
Devil is about five people that get trapped on an elevator in a high-rise office building. One by one, they get murdered, and we discover that one of them may be the devil in disguise. As we get to know each of the characters, we discover that they all have some guilt from their past.
And Then There Were None was about 10 people trapped on an island, who get killed off one by one. Like the characters in Devil, they all have committed some crime (or at least look like they have), and one of them is the murderer (although he or she is probably not the devil).
Hollywood is heavily into recycling, especially when it comes to stories.
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