Another lawsuit centers on Oscar-nominated scripts Top Gun: Mavericks The cousin of co-author Eric Singer has been submitted to claim that he has made a significant contribution to the film without credit or compensation.
In the lawsuit, Rolling stonesShaun Gray calf According to Gray, he worked with Singer for "five months", joined his cousin and director Joseph Kosinski for a story conference and wrote "the critical scene of the script, which became a huge dramatic action sequence in the movie that took up the movie, making it a huge blow." (This Top Gun: Mavericks The script is currently credited to Singer, Christopher McQuarrie and Ehren Kruger and provides “story” for Peter Craig and Justin Marks.
Gray brought lawsuits to Paramount Pictures and its parent company Paramount Global. He is seeking joint ownership of film copyright and other damages.
The lawsuit lists 12 scenarios Gray allegedly wrote, including: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) breaks speed records while flying prototype fighters, such as: Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise). On training practice site, the Mavericks stand out among other top gun graduates; the Mavericks show that the scenes of top gun graduates show that their “impossible” tasks are feasible. The lawsuit also claims that Gray wrote the last part of the film, including Mavericks and Bradley "Rock" Bradshaw (Myers Taylor) stealing the enemy's F-14 and the Maverick crashed to land the F-14 on the plane.
According to the lawsuit, Gray "maintained meticulous, space-time documents and emails that document and email records and tracked his writing of these key scenes and his important contribution to the film and its script." The lawsuit also claimed that the singer and Kosinsky's contribution to the project "consistently praised" Gray. (Although not mentioned in the lawsuit calf Also mentioned Gray's contribution to the script in 2022 GQ story. )
Although Gray is primarily a visual effects artist, his IMDB profile also lists some writing credits. He works in TV series Shantaram - Co-created by the singer - His two other films of the singer: 2009 internationality and 2017 Only courage.
It is worth noting that Gray's lawyer is Marc Toberoff, who represents the other party's plaintiff Top Gun: Mavericks Script controversy. The complaint was brought by the family of journalist Ehud Yonay, whose 1983 magazine story "Top Guns" inspired the original 1986 film (Yonay's film is based on "based" credit).
Yonay's family claims copyright to the magazine story was restored in January 2020, and this Paramount was conducted calf No proper license was obtained. But last April, the judge ruled against Yonays, saying there was not enough similarity between the original magazine and the sequel to support the copyright claim. (Yonays has appealed.)
“This lawsuit, like Mr. Toberoff’s previous lawsuit, tries to benefit from it Top Gun: MavericksA Paramount Pictures spokesman said of Gray's lawsuit: "We believe the court will reject this claim, too."
In a statement of his own, Toberf said: “As the studio knows, the suit has nothing to do with previous lawsuits.” Top Cloud Suits currently appealed. Paramount can deny and deflect everything they want, but the chart of the complaint document 2 Shaun Gray is very important joint authorization Top Gun: Mavericks The script details Grey's time stamp archive and space-time emails that are conveyed to many key scenes of Eric Singer, which are sometimes written by film director Joe Kosinski. ”
The story was updated at 6:28 PM ET and released a statement from Marc Toberoff.