It is not surprising that the plot lines to Thirteenth Floor and Matrix were so similar. It seems that similar movies tend to appear together - for example - Armageddon and Deep Impact. Matrix was released March 31, 1999 and Thirteenth Floor was released mid April 1999.
The way I understand it, a lot of times if a studio hears that another studio is doing a particular kind of movie, especially if that movie is going to be high-budget and well-advertised, they will try to rush through a similar movie to try to ride the coat-tails of the other studio's advertising. This happens in television also.
And sometimes, multiple authors will have similar ideas more or less simultaneously as a reaction to something happening in their culture or as a reaction to a new scientific discovery. I always find it interesting when I run across two stories or novels that were published so close together that neither oe could possibly be stealing from the other, yet they cover much of the same territory. As artists, they are reacting similarly to similar input from the environment. I wonder if anyone has ever studied this phenomenon...
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