Jonathan Heap

Jonathan Heap

"12:01 P. M." is a short story by American writer Richard A. Lupoff, which was published in the December 1973 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The story was twice adapted by Hollywood, first in 1990 as a short film, and again in 1993 as a television movie. Lupoff appeared in both films as an extra. The major plot device is a time loop or time bounce, and bears great similarity to that of 1993's Groundhog Day. Lupoff and Jonathan Heap, director of the 1990 film, were "outraged" by the apparent theft of the idea, but after six months of lawyers' conferences, they decided to drop the case against Columbia Pictures. Decades later, Lupoff returned to the story with two sequels, "12:02 P. M.", published in the January/February 2011 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, and "12:03 P. M.", published in the September/October 2012 edition of the same magazine.

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