John and John

John and John is a Ghanaian movie that features two friends who were both called John. One John duped a man by selling him fake gold. The two friends were running away with the money, but their car went faulty they lodged in a guest house. As they were taking the money from their bag, it fell on the ground and created anxiety among the guests and workers in the hotel whereby everybody wanted to steal the money[1][2][3][4][5]

John And John
Directed byKofi Asamoah (Kofas)
Release date
  • 2017 (2017)
CountryGhana
LanguageEnglish

Of interest, the film is a wholesale, unauthorized remake of a South African film called Skeem which was written and directed by Tim Greene in 2011. [6]

In 2017 Ghanain journalists reached out to Greene to check Asamoah's claim that he had received permission to adapt the movie, which he had not. Asamoah agreed to purchase the remake rights, but never followed through. No legal action was taken, as the cost of pursuing an intellectual property case against Asamoah would not be cost effective.

Cast
gollark: That still doesn't provide much of an incentive to make intellectual property versus just not doing that, but it would help I guess.
gollark: There are similar issues in the realm of books and stuff, but the convention there is more to actually pay for them.
gollark: I… see.
gollark: It is a shame nobody's come up with a particularly good model for funding IP development which doesn't either make it artificially scarce or basically rely on goodwill.
gollark: Presumably, poor incentives to actually improve performance? Maybe their corporate structure is such that nobody can really work on crosscutting stuff like that and everyone does individual features.

References
  1. Osafo-Nkansah, Eugene. "Cast And Crew of "JOHN AND JOHN" Movie To Be Chauffeur Driven In Kantanka Cars". Peacefmoline. Eugene Osafo-Nkansah. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
  2. JOHN AND JOHN FULL MOVIE YouTube, retrieved 2019-11-04
  3. "'John And John' Review - Kofas Media's Well Scripted, Well Acted And Well Directed Story Of Greed Ticks All The Boxes". GhanaCelebrities.Com. 2017-04-21. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  4. "Movie theft: These things happen, Ghanaians love 'John & John' – Kofas". www.myjoyonline.com. 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  5. "Movie fans disappointed over 'John & John'". www.myjoyonline.com. 2017-04-20. Retrieved 2019-11-04.
  6. SKEEM vs JOHN & JOHN, retrieved 2020-01-24


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