Did you guys see this? Lmao.
The filmmakers pitched their script to them and they turned it down. Then made it themselves. The two writers said they also stole a part that was almost verbatim. Man if this checks out, this is vile vile shit. Stealing someone else’s creativity is heinous.
The original film was called “Better Half” and theirs is called “Together”. And the original filmmakers had shopped the script to them before making it themselves. Yikes that’s awful
hahhahaha
thewrap.com
yikes
they have always made movies pepsi vs coke. hard to care about one movie and one non movie i will never see. fuck em
Looks like both Franco brothers are now canceled.
He could have been namor lol
for instance, anna kendricks cup girl routine was stolen wholesale from the real youtube girl who did it. wheres her tens of millions of dollars?
Lol these idiots didn't know how to play the Hollywood game. They think it's some industry for storytelling and not a goddamn sex club.
be jewish
steal from non-jews
aw no way
Something about Dave Francos face makes him an immensely unlikable douche bag on a gut feeling reaction.
WME will fuck them up and blacklist them, that's poking the bear.
I have a feeling this is going to be really hard to prove for the original pitch team. You can look at the movie The Holdovers where a scriptwriter posted chunks of his script that were basically lifted wholesale along with the basic premise but as far as I can tell his lawsuit went nowhere. They're even making a tv show for The Holdovers now.
If the script is different enough that Franco and Brie can argue a sort of simultaneous invention plea, they can probably tank the lawsuit.
Franco and Brie or the filmmakers?
What happens in these cases is as follows :
news item is cycled out quickly
some kangaroo court is assembled to proclaim that the scripts have "some" similar elements (even though they might be 95% exactly the same)
the original scriptwriter is paid off in a settlement
nobody brings this up again
The standard procedure is that the studio pays off people off to go away and they make sure that the settlement includes a clause where it can't be talked about and brought up again so the entire thing just disappears.
At least until war breaks out and the government accuses the industry of forming a coup
That's what the government did to the Hays Code system during WWII
or so the germans would have us believe. .. …
Both films apparently end with the couple accepting their situation and facing it with newfound vigor set to a song from Spiceworld.
That's the sort of significant detail that proves theft, more than both referring to Plato's Symposium, which considering the premise could be seen as, like you suggest, simultaneous invention.
I hope they win the fucking case, especially since Brie already pulled this shit with Horse Girl aping off of "The God in My Ear". Then maybe they could afford to get it a wide release or onto streaming.
>The filmmakers pitched their script to them and they turned it down. Then made it themselves. The two writers said they also stole a part that was almost verbatim. Man if this checks out, this is vile vile shit. Stealing someone else’s creativity is heinous.
That's literally how any submissions to any company work, they just reject you or "lose" the script and then make it "written" by someone's nephew. Why on Earth would they be giving you free money when they can give it to one of their own?
With jews, you lose
Michael Shanks
I find it amusing how shrewd he seems to be IRL
I just want to work and get paid
present idea to jews
get jew'd hard
Who could've seen this coming
Dont care. Does she get naked in it?
Fatal jewry
Michael Shanks
Daniel Jackson?
I came in here to post these words verbatim
An idea is probably the least valuable part of anything.
Based thieving jews. You work hard and they steal everything from you and take all the credit. Absolutely based.
Looked it up, isn't even the same Michael Shanks. Just some literal who nobody who stole that, too. lmao.
"Yikes"
To be fair, goyim are complete trash who wouldn't know what to do with a good idea if it smashed them in the head. Jews actually have the talent to make something happen with it.
could the article writer just report the news as it is and not announce what we're supposed to think every single sentence?
Don’t care still gonna watch Together
The weird thing is the original movie was released in 2023 and they announced this movie in early 2024. How did they expect to get away with it when the original movie had already been released BEFORE they even started production on their version? If the original movie was stuck in post-production limbo for years then maybe I could understand.
She should be sued for showing her tits after they got all deflated from age
least villainous jewish behavior
I have a feeling this is going to be really hard to prove for the original pitch team.
From the article: "In addition to citing similarities between the premise of “Better Half” and “Together,” the suit draws from direct scenes, themes and moments of dialogue that StudioFest argues prove the latter film to be a “blatant ripoff.” One example is characters’ discussion of “Plato’s Symposium” in a “near-verbatim way, explaining that human beings originally had two faces and eight limbs, but Zeus split them in half because the gods feared man’s power.” Another is that both “Better Half” and “Together” share a final “pivotal emotional scene” that features the two main characters accepting their fate and putting on a vinyl of the Spice Girls album “Spiceworld.” The two central couples are also composed of one codependent partner and a commitment-phobic artist, both in their 30s."
If this is true then it is obviously a rip-off. And the people behind the original even OFFERED the lead roles to Dave and Alison back in 2020, which they then declined.
But apparently Neon already paid $17 million for the Dave and Alison version which hasn't even been released yet. The people behind the original are obviously coming after that kind of money.
Yeah I don't get it. The original film was already released BEFORE they started production on this version and they flagrantly rip-off scenes like nobody would ever notice? Why couldn't they change the music from Spice Girls to a different girl group? It's just bizarre.
jews absolutely destroying disgusting goyim cattle as per usual
How is this news?
Dave and Alison wanted to produce it themselves, not just be gun-for-hire actors. They probably paid Michael Shanks peanuts to "write" and direct "their" movie too.
Again, you can post that Brie and Franco straight up lifted huge chunks of the original film just like the guy suing Alexander Payne did. But I don't think that will necessarily be enough to force the courts to judge in favor of the plaintiff, mostly because Hollywood works tirelessly to rig the system so they can constantly do things like this. The entire early days of the recording industry was built entirely on fucked up nasty contracts that made it so musicians barely saw the profits from their music. Hollywood in kind creates a lot of legal precedents that allow them to poach and steal while ascribing specious credit to the source in order to get around infringement suits.
Cope. If you spent months/years writing a screenplay or novel only to have somebody more famous and connected regurgitate your idea (which you yourself told them about) without paying you a cent or giving you any credit then obviously you would be seething.
She doesn't have to steal, I'll give it to her
Based
this is what people dont understand. almost all of that 17mil is owed to investors and new projects to keep them in the game. nobody actually sees these big paydays, its all pumped back into the system or you dont get to play anymore.
I don't think they'll get away with it since there is evidence that they were offered the original roles and presented with the original idea/script. It is plainly obvious that they did not want to just be mere actors and repackaged the idea/script so that they could be producers and have more creative clout. I just don't understand how they expected to get away with such flagrant plagiarism, at least change it just enough so you can claim it was all a bizarre coincidence.
JEWS EVERYWHERE
Well yeah, but like I said they'll throw some money at the sap that wrote the original script and make it so it's written in the settlement to never talk about it again and it will be quickly forgotten.
But the original scriptwriter will be blacklisted and Franco/Brie future stuff deprioritized.
They have ways to spin this away, but nobody wants to deal with liabilities in the future, it complicates business.
I think the problem when dealing with such brazenly deceptive kikery is that you're guaranteed to lose because they hold all the cards and goyim get nothing, always
But the original scriptwriter will be blacklisted and Franco/Brie future stuff deprioritized.
The guy should've just gotten a grip and realized where he's working in and not said anything.
That's easy to say until you see "your movie" repackaged and sold for $17 million dollars without you getting paid a cent, or even credited.
What's he up to? It's like he disappeared.
If you speak up and get yourself involved in a studio lawsuit, even if you're in the right, you'll be blacklisted anyway, since they don't want to deal with people that are associated with problems.
The industry is such that everyone is expendable, and certainly most of all some rando with a script.
Franco and Brie, despite being shitty people, are somewhat recognizable brand names so it's worth more preserving them than siding with the "morally right" rando that wrote a script they lifted.
I have some ideas for stuff but refuse to share it with people because of stuff like this happening
That's the rub really.
The usual vector for scriptwriters it either to slowly work their way up the chain by doing small projects and establishing their name or they shack up with some director and work with them exclusively.
To send your scripts around without having an established name/agent and being a known quantity is asking to be exploited. They can read it and find it interesting and tell you it's not good then 2 years later they do a slight rewrite and pass it off as their own and if you complain they just pay you some small lump sum to go away
Wow, their appetite for intellectual property theft is almost as large as their noses
I wont post names and inevitably dox myself but
be me
in filmschool
working on final major script of my degree
paired with a specific "mentor" from the schools faculty who gels with your script for the whole year
my mentor initially loves my pitch for the script
workshop it together
hes really loving everything, hyping me up etc
produce first draft
torn to shreds by mentor
produce 2nd draft
torn again but not as badly
eventually start conforming my script to my mentor's advice, removing a lot of elements I like
the script I handed in eventually didn't resemble my initial pitch that closely
months pass
new show drops on shitflix
it is literally my 1st draft script
watching the pilot episode thinking its coincidence at first
series doesn't bother to even change names of characters and places I made up lmao
confront mentor at uni
he completely denies it
post-grad the next year I see him and a catch up
few drinks in I confront him again about how scary similar the script and the netflix series were
he all but admits to selling my first draft overseas to europe and tells me there's no way for me to prove it
says he will buy my drinks for the rest of the night but that's it
rofl it happens A LOT more than you would think
for anyone wondering, the series ran for 4 seasons in the end, and was total shit outside the pilot (in my humble opinion). I wouldn't have continued the plot like that
That's bullshit but I believe it
It's not unfortunately. But believe what you like! I am happy I never got too involved with the project beyond my original assignment. I can see how something similar happening to a script you've spent years on could probably destroy you. Or make you seethe so hard your career spins out.
Problem is all these writers in order to join the Writers Guild and when they sign contracts with studios all have to sign an Arbitration contract. Arbitration should be illegal because the lawyers and even judges are corrupt as fuck and paid off by whoever has the deepest pockets
Dam bro, you got kiked hard
Should've kicked his ass.
Lol this is like 10 years ago that this happened. He's a bit of a burnout now and is an old man which will make it even easier to kick his ass ha!
give us a hint on the name
No sorry.
It was turned into a spanish netflix series. Literally all you're getting out of me.
Because the original never got a wide release, it only played at film festivals. It has no online presence aside from an IMDb page and mentions on these film fests. One of those sites even had a trailer, but the video has since been delisted for some reason.
These smug bastards have such an inflated ego that they think they're untouchable, that the unwashed proles who put in the work to actually create something would never dare stand up for themselves. They didn't change the song both as a means of mocking the original creators and because they wouldn't have an inkling of what to switch it out for anyhow. Creatively & morally bankrupt, but fiscally flush.
IS THERE ANY NUDITY IN IT?
According to the suit, the casting director on “Better Half” emailed a script and synopsis to Franco and Brie’s agents at WME in August 2020, along with an offer for the couple to star. Franco’s agent quickly responded that, “Dave is going to pass, but thank you for thinking of him.”
Unsolicited email. No case, but the Francos might payout nuisance money.
Lionel Hutz voice: "There's no possible way this could be a coincidence."
"Works on Contingency? No, Money Down!"