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'Pirates' Movie Produces Sued by Screenwriter; How's this for ridiculous?
Topic Started: Jul 13 2006, 05:45 AM (239 Views)
pirategirl0306
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I swear, people can't become successful without other people claiming that the success is rightfully theirs. We had the lawsuit for The Da Vinci Code, now we have one for POTC. Here's what the news clip says:

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'Pirates' Movie Producers Sued by Screenwriter

The global success of the Pirates Of The Caribbean sequel has been tainted by a Hollywood screenwriter, who claims the whole idea for the franchise was his. The megahit, Pirates Of The Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, smashed box office records in eight territories - including America and the UK - over the weekend, but writer Royce Mathew is keen to halt the celebrations. He claims he created "drawings" and a "screenplay" for a project he called Supernatural Pirate Movie - and now he fears his ideas have been turned into a Disney blockbuster. Royce states he even called the pirate ship in his film treatment the Black Pearl - the same name used for Johnny Depp's craft, and the subtitle for the original film. And he also created a lead characters called Will Turner - the same name as Orlando Bloom's swashbuckler in the Disney films - and Elizabeth - the Christian name of Keira Knightley's character. The screenwriter insists he registered the drawings and his screenplay with the US Copyright Office, and is now suing the The Walt Disney Company, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Touchstone Home Video and producer Jerry Bruckheimer, claiming movie bosses used his ideas as a blueprint for the Pirates of The Caribbean films.


Yeah, so he waited all the way until THREE YEARS LATER to complain about it? This is ridiculous. :angry:
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KrissXed
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:huh:

:blink:

OMG.

:rolleyes:

Welcome to the 21st century...
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SilverSparrow
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Oh, it's this crazy idiot again. This guy's lawsuit is a load of cr@p. The movie is based on the RIDE and there are references to the ride everywhere - and the ride was developed by Disney Imagineers.

He hasn't a leg to stand on. I did hear about this when the first Pirates came out and he didn't get anywhere with it then.

See, he'll have to go against the Disney juggernaut and basically convince THEM that THEY ultimately stole his idea for the attraction to begin with.

And no one has ever been able to get past Disney.
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Choccie
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Oh dear God.. This is ridiculous... :angry:
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Elven
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I'm with Choccie.
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