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"Truman" Latest Copyright Suit Victim
Now, the hit Jim Carrey vehicle The Truman Show has been targeted by a writer who says his idea was ripped off.
On Tuesday, New York playwright Mark Dunn sued Paramount Pictures for $60 million plus--the amount Truman has grossed so far--claiming the whole movie was based on his 1992 play Frank's Life.
"It's my story. The movie could not have been written without someone seeing the play or the script," Dunn says of his work (which ran off-Off-Broadway for three months in '92), in the New York Post.
He says he pitched his play to the studio but was rejected.
And there are similarities between play and film, according to the Post: Both the play and the movie feature a nice Everyman living his life unaware he's the subject of an ongoing television soap opera. Everyone in the guy's life is an actor, including a blonde wife and a beer buddy. Both include a sleazy producer pulling the strings. And both focus on the main character's slow discovery of his plight. Striking, eh? Well, keep in mind that none of the similar cases mounted against Twister or The Full Monty won anything for the plaintiff writers. And those cases featured large numbers of plot similarities, too. (The Amistad suit was settled before trial.)
Another thing Dunn, 41, should keep in mind is that his attorney, Carl Person, unsuccessfully represented a client in a 1992 suit that claimed Harrison Ford's character in the film Regarding Henry had 108 similarities to his real life.
Literary agent Lynn Pleshette, who says she brought Paramount a screenplay penned by Andrew Niccol that would later become The Truman Show, tells the Post that Dunn's suit is "insane."
"Every time a big movie comes out, a moron tries to sue."
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