Film Director: It is true that certain characters and plot twists in my newly released film The Big Heist are similar to characters and plot twists in Thieves, a movie that came out last year  Pointing to these similarities, the film studio that produced Thieves is now accusing me of taking ideas from that film  The accusation is clearly without merit
All production work on The Big Heist was actually completed months before Thieves was released
The characters and plot twists that are most similar in the two films have close parallels in many earlier films of the same genre.