The biggest problem with lawsuits like this and the woman who complained about The Never Ending Story being false advertising and the guy who contended that the trailer to Drive wasn't the movie he was expecting (one of them may have been a Simpsons episode but none of them are far from each other) is that they never think they're going to win but it's often cost effective for the studio to settle than to fight the case. In summary, farking lawyers.

Man, he should be thankful people think someone ELSE is responsible for that movie. Why is he going out of his way to point the blame at himself?

Flint Ironstag: Of course that only works where the studio is in the right and the person suing them hasn't got a case. In those cases they should settle because that's the right thing to do.

Right and if this guy did write a screenplay that the studio did steal somehow, he should be compensated. Obviously we don't know the whole story but while studios might be stupid when it comes to making creative decisions, they're not stupid about covering their ass legally. A lot of times a significant percent of a movie's budget goes to people who write a draft for them that they'll never use, just in case one idea ends up in the script that they do use. Studios know what they're doing and should fight this sort of shiat when they're in the right.

Mugato: Flint Ironstag: Of course that only works where the studio is in the right and the person suing them hasn't got a case. In those cases they should settle because that's the right thing to do.

Right and if this guy did write a screenplay that the studio did steal somehow, he should be compensated. Obviously we don't know the whole story but while studios might be stupid when it comes to making creative decisions, they're not stupid about covering their ass legally. A lot of times a significant percent of a movie's budget goes to people who write a draft for them that they'll never use, just in case one idea ends up in the script that they do use. Studios know what they're doing and should fight this sort of shiat when they're in the right.

for some reason, this popped into my head:


"...He tried to convince me to fire you, too, but no, that'd be too easy. Nah, you're under contract.
You're going to stay that way. Anything you write is going to be the property of Capitol Pictures. And Capitol Pictures is not going to produce anything you write...not until you grow up a little. You ain't no writer, Fink. You're a goddamn write-off."


"I... I tried to show you...something beautiful. Something about all of us. I..."


"You arrogant son of a biatch. You think you're the only writer that can give me
that Barton Fink feeling? I got 20 writers under contract I can ask for a Fink-type thing from!
You swell-headed hypocrite. You just don't get it, do you? You think the whole world revolves around
whatever rattles inside that little kike head of yours.

Get him out of my sight, Lou!

I want him in town, though. He's still under contract. I want you in town, Fink and out of my sight.

Now, get lost.

There's a war on."

Darn cdesign proponentsists are everywhere....