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Caspian Tredwell-Owen is an American screenwriter. He wrote a screenplay that, after being read by Steven Spielberg, was purchased by DreamWorks for $1,000,000. The screenplay was re-written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and became the 2005 film The Island. Whether or not Tredwell-Owen actually wrote this script, however, is a matter of some dispute. A lawsuit, filed in New York by Robert Fiveson, writer/director of the B classic The Clonus Horror,  suggested that Tredwell-Owen's script was in fact lifted from Fiveson's sci-fi film, released in 1979. Further, The Island script was strikingly similar to a screenplay previously submitted to Spider-Man producer Avi Arad --Spider-Man producing partner of Ian Bryce, who later produced The Island--entitled Astrocorp, written by screenwriter Luke Shanahan and psychiatrist Dr. Michael Alan Schwartz.

In addition to his The Island credit, Tredwell-Owen is the screenwriter of record of the universally panned Beyond Borders, which Variety's Todd Mccarthy called "high-minded claptrap" and New York Times reviewer Elvis Mitchell likened to "watching someone trying to dry his hands with sandpaper."

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卡斯皮安·特雷德维尔-欧文（Caspian Tredwell-Owen）是美国编剧。他写了一个剧本，在被史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格阅读后，被梦工厂以 1,000,000 美元的价格收购。剧本由亚历克斯·库兹曼和罗伯托·奥尔奇重新编写，成为 2005 年的电影《岛屿》。然而，特雷德威尔-欧文是否真的写了这个剧本，这是一个有争议的问题。B级经典电影《克隆人恐怖》的编剧兼导演罗伯特·菲弗森（Robert Fiveson）在纽约提起的诉讼表明，特雷德威尔-欧文的剧本实际上是从1979年上映的菲弗森的科幻电影中摘取的。此外，《岛屿》的剧本与之前提交给蜘蛛侠制片人阿维·阿拉德（Avi Arad）的剧本惊人地相似，后者是伊恩·布莱斯（Ian Bryce）的蜘蛛侠制作伙伴，后者后来制作了《岛屿》（The Island），名为《天体公司》（Astrocorp），由编剧卢克·沙纳汉（Luke Shanahan）和精神病学家迈克尔·艾伦·施瓦茨（Michael Alan Schwartz）博士撰写。

除了《The Island》之外，Tredwell-Owen还是广受好评的《Beyond Borders》的编剧，《综艺》（Variety）的托德·麦卡锡（Todd McCarthy）称其为“高尚的喧嚣”，《纽约时报》评论家埃尔维斯·米切尔（Elvis Mitchell）将其比作“看着有人试图用砂纸擦手”。