Writer-producer Morris Taylor "Buddy" Sheffield (now
that's a name worthy of a brief role as a shifty bookie on
Law and Order) sez that Disney
stole the highly lucrative teen-switcheroo idea of Hannah Montana from a series he had pitched them featuring a teenage boy who becomes rock star named "Rock Ryder." While it is pretty damn suspicious that Disney would develop a show with an idea so close to Sheffield's, you do have to wonder why it took them five years to rip him off, and you have to wonder how original the idea of a kid leading a normal life who secretly transforms into an awesome pop star really is. (Or, as Maura pointed out, "Someone alert the creators of
Jem.")
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