It's been said that there are only, I think, seven truly original stories (and Shakespeare wrote about four of them); everything else is some combination of those. It's almost a certainty that there'll be many points of similarity between any two stories you can name. Especially in Hollywood, where the same ideas whirl around like Fred Hoyle's tornado in a junkyard.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'