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Post by Hugh Beaumont on Jun 18, 2007 14:25:47 GMT -5
Long story short, the suit was settled for "7 figures" late last year, and the original screenwriter for "Clonus" is still cheesed. Money can sooth the anger, but it can't remove it completely. Also, can Bay really be blamed for this? I mean, doesn't the blame lie squarely on whomever wrote The Island, and not on the director? I sincerely doubt Bay had ever laid eyes on Clonus before making the movie.
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Post by Diet Kolos on Jun 18, 2007 16:27:50 GMT -5
Long story short, the suit was settled for "7 figures" late last year, and the original screenwriter for "Clonus" is still cheesed. Money can sooth the anger, but it can't remove it completely. Also, can Bay really be blamed for this? I mean, doesn't the blame lie squarely on whomever wrote The Island, and not on the director? I sincerely doubt Bay had ever laid eyes on Clonus before making the movie. Whoo! 7-figures! Go Walter S. Fiveson (even if his movie was crap)! And yes, you can partly blame Bay. From what I've read at the Agony Booth, he had a fairly creative hand at what went in the movie and its a good director's job to fully research and understand what exactly you're filming. If he had cared, he could've had someone researched and said "say, this looks oddly familiar to a bad 70's movie, maybe we should change some things". But, Bay sucks. Go watch Pearl Harbor and tell me otherwise.
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Post by XerxesTheCat on Jun 18, 2007 21:03:34 GMT -5
Good god. The original writer for Clonus sure seems pissed at Fiveson, when IMO Dreamworks are the real problem. It seems as though Dreamworks has "pulled a Nickelodeon", and made two previously good friends, into mortal enemies. That's sad.
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Post by fanliorel on Jun 24, 2007 20:49:49 GMT -5
You're right about Dreamworks being the real bad guy, but from reading the arguments from both gentlemen, I can certainly see why Sullivan is unhappy with Fiveson (even though he hedges it by being saying what really disappoints him is the US copyright system). I'd have to agree it sounds like he got the short end of the stick; but the legal system never provides true justice, it just metes what fairness it can.
Anyway, thanks for the link to that article hugo, I've been very curious about whatever happened to this lawsuit.
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Post by MassMayhem on Jul 23, 2007 18:34:38 GMT -5
I second the thanx. I've wondered what happened with this lawsuit.
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Post by fanliorel on Jul 24, 2007 8:51:50 GMT -5
the legal system never provides true justice, it just metes what fairness it can. Don't you hate it when a thread is bumped a month later and you realize what a cheesy schlock sentence of a line you've written? Eh wth, if i'm gonna write toolish lines like that I may as well come clean, my bad folks.
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Post by Shep on Aug 19, 2007 8:15:56 GMT -5
I can see why Sullivan's upset. A huge studio rips off his script and he ends up with $2,000 and no credit. That's crap, but then again that's Hollywood.
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Post by ObscureGamer on Aug 19, 2007 10:54:43 GMT -5
Could this be the start of a new trend in Hollywood? Instead of remaking mainstream, popular things (Transformers, TMNT, Batman, Halloween), they'll be remaking obscure b-movie cult films and not giving them credit? It's certainly cheaper than paying enormous licensing rights for super-popular things.
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Post by Shep on Aug 19, 2007 12:19:48 GMT -5
Could this be the start of a new trend in Hollywood? Instead of remaking mainstream, popular things (Transformers, TMNT, Batman, Halloween), they'll be remaking obscure b-movie cult films and not giving them credit? It's certainly cheaper than paying enormous licensing rights for super-popular things. Good point.
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Post by happy on Aug 22, 2007 8:21:35 GMT -5
Maybe Michael Bay can remake Manos, the Hands of Fate next and all the proceeds can go to Hal Warren Fertilizer LOL
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Post by ObscureGamer on Aug 22, 2007 10:22:55 GMT -5
Maybe Michael Bay can remake Manos, the Hands of Fate next and all the proceeds can go to Hal Warren Fertilizer LOL Well, if anyone knows how to sell dung, it's Michael Bay.
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Post by krokodyle on Aug 24, 2007 12:50:07 GMT -5
Maybe Michael Bay can remake Manos, the Hands of Fate next and all the proceeds can go to Hal Warren Fertilizer LOL Oooooooh when are the Torgo auditions??? Sign me up for THAT one...
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