The Walt Disney Company is being sued for allegedly looting the idea for its billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean franchise by two writers who claim they conceived the silly swashbuckler portrayed by Johnny Depp.
A. Lee Alfred II and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. say Disney stole their original spec screenplay to create Pirates. While the suit acknowledges there is no shortage of pirate lore, it claims their work creatively extended beyond the tropes of fearsome scoundrels in search of treasure.
"Pirates in film, while handsome or good-looking, have not been depicted as having a sense of humor, until 'Captain Jack Sparrow'...
A. Lee Alfred II and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. say Disney stole their original spec screenplay to create Pirates. While the suit acknowledges there is no shortage of pirate lore, it claims their work creatively extended beyond the tropes of fearsome scoundrels in search of treasure.
"Pirates in film, while handsome or good-looking, have not been depicted as having a sense of humor, until 'Captain Jack Sparrow'...
- 11/16/2017
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Walt Disney Company is being sued for allegedly looting the idea for its billion-dollar Pirates of the Caribbean franchise by two writers who claim they conceived the silly swashbuckler portrayed by Johnny Depp.
A. Lee Alfred II and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. say Disney stole their original spec screenplay to create Pirates. While the suit acknowledges there is no shortage of pirate lore, it claims their work creatively extended beyond the tropes of fearsome scoundrels in search of treasure.
"Pirates in film, while handsome or good-looking, have not been depicted as having a sense of humor, until 'Captain Jack Sparrow'...
A. Lee Alfred II and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. say Disney stole their original spec screenplay to create Pirates. While the suit acknowledges there is no shortage of pirate lore, it claims their work creatively extended beyond the tropes of fearsome scoundrels in search of treasure.
"Pirates in film, while handsome or good-looking, have not been depicted as having a sense of humor, until 'Captain Jack Sparrow'...
- 11/16/2017
- by Ashley Cullins
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Disney plundered a copyright owned by other people in creating its hugely successful “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie franchise, according to a lawsuit filed by writers Arthur Lee Alfred II, E. Ezequiel Martinez Jr. and their producer Tova Laiter. The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Colorado on Tuesday, alleges that Disney committed “willful infringement of Plaintiff’s original copyrighted expression of themes, settings, dialogue, characters, plot. mood sequence of events contained in an original spec screenplay entitled ‘Pirates of the Caribbean.'” The suit contends that Laiter presented the screenplay to Disney executive Brigham Taylor in August 2000. Also Read: Disney Slapped.
- 11/15/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
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