By Rob Cooper PUBLISHED: 08:46 EST, 25 July 2013 | UPDATED: 08:46 EST, 25 July 2013 'The Matrix was my idea': Richard Bey said that the idea for the multi-billion dollar movie came from his undergraduate dissertation A writer who claims the idea for the multi-billion dollar Matrix film trilogy was stolen from his university dissertation today took the makers of the film franchise to the High Court. Richard Bey said the inspiration for the movies came from his 10,000 word undergraduate dissertation he wrote between 1994 and 1996, whilst completing a social anthropology degree. The screenwriter or writers behind the films have never been publicly identified and Mr Bey, 49, who lives in London, says that the core ideas came from him.
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Richard Bey claims his 10,000 word essay on semiotics and race was inspiration for the films
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He claimed his university passed the idea for the film onto Warner Bros
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Judge dismisses case and said there was nothing in the essay that tells a story like the one in the Matrix
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