Any insiders know details here?
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...aling-zootopia-idea-screenwriter-suit-n736711
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...aling-zootopia-idea-screenwriter-suit-n736711
The movie came out a year ago and was publicized before that and he just now decided to take this to court? Guess he wanted to see how well it did first to see how much he should ask for. Plus, don't want to claim to be the actual writer of a movie that ended up bombing at the box office.
Because it won Oscar for best animated picture I can only assume.The movie came out a year ago and was publicized before that and he just now decided to take this to court?
Another day, another Royce Mathew style case.... Wish he could just go to jail.
Any insiders know details here?
http://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/...aling-zootopia-idea-screenwriter-suit-n736711
Hannah Montana was also stolen, in the same manner this guys claims Zootopia was. But then again almost all of the Disney films are based on classic literature or history so none of the stories are actually original. Which is a shame.I'm not convinced Royce was wrong.
It wouldn't be the first time Disney blatantly stole story ideas.
Or the second.
Hannah Montana was also stolen, in the same manner this guys claims Zootopia was. But then again almost all of the Disney films are based on classic literature or history so none of the stories are actually original. Which is a shame.
That was my first thought about the lawsuit.Because it won Oscar for best animated picture I can only assume.
And here I always assumed Zootopia was based on Williams' "Police Force."
So does anyone here actually believe he has a chance of winning? Surprisingly, a lot of people on the Zootopia subreddit are saying he does.
Well...yeah. You've got three years to file and it's not like he'd be asking for an injunction to stop the publication of anything.
I don't think the timing is suspect at all.To be fair, if it's true than he deserves something. I am no lawyer but I would think the timing of the lawsuit at least brings the plaintiff's motivation into question and would likely be used by the defense to weaken the claim's credibility.
I don't think the timing is suspect at all.
It takes a while to put something like this together, and we don't know whether McFarland had been working on a possible agreement between Disney and Goldman prior to filing. For all we know they may have been in talks prior to the movie's release.
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