Miyu
09-26-2003, 09:43 PM
Producer Martin Poll and screenwriter Larry Cohen have filed a $100 million lawsuit against Fox, claiming it stole their idea for this summer's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Variety reported. According to the complaint for copyright infringement, filed Sept. 25 in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, Poll communicated with Fox as early as 1993 about a feature titled Cast of Characters, a fictional struggle revolving around Allan Quatermain and Sherlock Holmes battling James Moriarty and Dorian Gray, the trade paper reported.
According to the complaint, Cohen (Phone Booth) wrote Cast of Characters in 1992 and optioned it to Poll (The Lion in Winter) the following year. Poll then signed John Landis to direct the film, hired a writer to work on the script and had numerous conversations with Fox's then-head of production Tom Rothman about the project, the trade paper reported.
Fox credits Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel of the same name as the source for its film. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery, opened this summer and made $65 million at the domestic box office, the trade paper reported.
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According to the complaint, Cohen (Phone Booth) wrote Cast of Characters in 1992 and optioned it to Poll (The Lion in Winter) the following year. Poll then signed John Landis to direct the film, hired a writer to work on the script and had numerous conversations with Fox's then-head of production Tom Rothman about the project, the trade paper reported.
Fox credits Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel of the same name as the source for its film. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, starring Sean Connery, opened this summer and made $65 million at the domestic box office, the trade paper reported.
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