History DuelingWorks / FilmPeriodPieces

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* ''Film/{{Reality|2023}} (2023) / ''Film/{{Winner|2024}}'' (2024)
** '''Capsule Pitch Descriptions''': Two films about the American intelligence translator Reality Winner, who leaked a confidential document discussing Russian interference in the 2016 US elections, released near the end of Winner's real-life sentence.
** '''Implementation''': ''Reality'' is a dramatization of the real interrogation transcript by the FBI and takes place mostly in Winner's home. It is also TheFilmOfThePlay ''Is This A Room''. ''Winner'' is a dark comedy involving more of Winner's personal life.

** '''Implementation''': ''Vaincre ou Mourir'' is a small budget film produced in part by the {{theme park|s}} Le Puy du Fou and concerns François Athanase Charette de La Contrie, a French royalist military leader fighting against the First French Republic's armies during the Vendée Wars part of the Revolution. ''Napoleon'' is a big budget film and concerns the life of Emperor UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, from his days in the First French Republic's armies during the Revolution to his death and including his relation with Joséphine de Beauharnais and several battles he fought against coalitions of other European countries.

** '''Implementation:''' ''Troy'' and ''300'' seem doomed to comparison, despite having little in common besides being about Greeks. Same with ''King Arthur'' and ''The Last Legion'' as both are films set during the TheSiege in the 2004 flicks fell victim to [[SeinfeldIsUnfunny Seinfeld Fatigue]] in the wake of a certain '03 [[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing film]] and those ''Capital One'' ads. ''Kingdom'' was heavily [[ExecutiveMeddling cut up]] for the [[VindicatedByCable theatrical release]]. ''Film/RobinHood2010'' is ''Gladiator'' [[AC:[[RecycledInSPACE with Robin Hood!]]]]

** '''Implementation''': ''Vaincre ou Mourir'' is a small budget film produced in part by the {{theme park|s}} Le Puy du Fou and concerns François Athanase Charette de La Contrie, a French royalist military leader during the Vendée Wars part of the Revolution. ''Napoleon'' is a big budget film and concerns the life of Emperor UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, from his days in the First French Republic's armies during the Revolution to his death and including his relation with Joséphine de Beauharnais and several battles he fought against coalitions of other European countries.

** '''Implementation''': ''Vaincre ou Mourir'' is a small budget film produced in part by the {{theme park|s}} Le Puy du Fou and concerns François Athanase Charette de La Contrie, a French royalist military leader during the Vendée Wars part of the Revolution. ''Napoleon'' is a big budget film and concerns the life of Emperor UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte, from his days in the First French Republic's armies during the Revolution to his death and including his relation with Joséphine de Beauharnais and several battles he fought.

** '''Capsule Pitch Descriptions''': Two films released in 2023 about charismatic French military leaders that came to prominence during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution.

** '''Implementation''': Creator/ChristopherNolan's ''Oppenheimer'' is based on the book ''American Prometheus'', and was shot on a significantly higher budget, while ''To End All War'' was a made-for-TV documentary produced by ''Oppenheimer'' distributor Creator/{{Universal}}'s sister company NBC News Studios, and was directed by Christopher Cassel. The latter was released on July 13, a few days shy of the former's release date.

** '''Capsule Pitch Description:''' Big budget {{epic mocies}}s of the end of UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfHollywood that center around a great hero who's gets enslaved but manages to stand up to and face the might of AncientRome.

** '''Capsule Pitch Description:''' Both are Golden Age Hollywood era epics that center around a great hero who stands up to and faces the might of the Roman Empire.
** '''Implementation:''' Kirk Douglas desperately desired the role of Judah Ben-Hur that ultimately went to Charlton Heston, and though offered the role as the film's chief antagonist Messala he declined. Shortly after, Edward Lewis, a vice president in Douglas's film company, Bryna Productions, had Douglas read Howard Fast's novel, Spartacus, which had a related theme—an individual who challenges the might of the Roman Empire—and Douglas was impressed enough to purchase an option on the book from Fast with his own financing. Universal Studios eventually agreed to finance the film after Douglas persuaded Olivier, Laughton, and Ustinov to act in it. At the end of the day both films came out within a year of each other, and given all that backstory were in essence born to be rivals.

** '''Implementation''': The British film produced by Signature Entertainment has a lower budget, was released [[DirectToVideo direct to digital and DVD]], has only one big name (Creator/JamesCosmo) in the cast, and D'Artagnan is {{Race Lift}}ed as black. The French production by Creator/{{Pathe}} is [[DividedForAdaptation divided in two parts]], has a big budget and plenty of big French acting names (Creator/VincentCassel, Creator/EvaGreen, Creator/RomainDuris, Creator/LouisGarrel etc), and was released theatrically.

* ''The Three Musketeers'' (2023, UK) / ''Film/{{The Three Musketeers|2023}}'' (2023, France)

** '''Implementation''': The British film produced by Signature Entertainment has a lower budget, was released [[DirectToVideo direct to digital and DVD]], has only one big name (Creator/JamesCosmo) in the cast, and D'Artagnan is {{Race Lift}}ed as black. The French production by Pathé is divided in two parts, has a big budget and plenty of big French acting names (Creator/VincentCassel, Creator/EvaGreen, Creator/RomainDuris, Creator/LouisGarrel etc), and was released theatrically.

** '''Capsule Pitch Description:''' 1992 was the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus landing in the Americas, and Alexander and Ilya Salkind (producers of the [[Film/{{Superman}} Superman films]]) originally wanted Creator/RidleyScott to direct a film about Columbus. Scott turned them down, but later began work on what became ''1492''.