Paramount was continued by the cousin of a writer to Top Gun: Maverickwho alleges that he cocolored the scenario.
In a trial submitted on the New York Federal Court on Sunday, Shaun Gray said he wrote key scenes for the film after screenwriter Eric Warren Singer and director Joseph Kosinski called on his help to develop the story behind the blockbuster suite. He requests an order from the court which would force paramount to give him a writing credit and a share of profits.
The trial marks the second legal battle on the rights of Top Gun: Maverick. In 2023, the heirs of the author of a Magazine History of 1983 who inspired the original film accused paramount of continuing with the project without renegotiating a new license. The applicant in the case since Dississiond was represented by the truck of copyright Marc Toberoff.
In a press release, Paramount Pictures declared this trial, “like the one previously brought by Mr. Toberoff to try to benefit from the success of Top Gun: Maverickis completely without merit. He added: “We are convinced that a court will also reject this complaint.”
Gray is the cousin of Singer, who was recruited by Kosinski to write the film after having collaborated with him Only the courageous. His credits show that he was editor in an episode of Shantaram And was the assistant of the writer of Singer for The international. He especially worked as a digital artist, including on Magicians, challenge And Two and a half men.
In the trial, Gray says that Singer, after being hired by Paramount Pictures to write the film script as a work-work, approached it in 2017 for the check at the request of Kosinski. Over the next five months, he actively participated in history meetings and “written key scenes” for vital action sequences, according to the trial.
This includes the opening scene in which Maverick, played by Tom Cruise, pushes a high-tech prototype Jet Fighter beyond his limits, beating speed records before the aircraft failure, and another sequence in which he repeatedly exceeds elite pilots during a training exercise, culminating in a dog fight with a trainee. The trial includes files and time talents that document its writing of the scenes.
Gray maintains that he is co-author of the scenario because he has never concluded a work agreement on work, which governs the employment relationship of a production company with a writer and gives him copyright to a script, with paramount unlike other writers for Top Gun: MaverickIncluding the singer, Eric Kruger, Christopher McQuarrie, Peter Craig and Justin Marks. He says he has never concluded a written contract concerning his work on the film.
The trial requests an order from the court for Gray to receive a “scenario by” credit in the future, so that the include the include in future marketing efforts and the works related to the film and a reduction in profit. If the court refuses to make such an order, it provides a request for copyright and requesting unpertified damages.
