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‘Britannia’ Lawsuit: Sky Sued For $8.5M By Writer Who Claims Idea For Roman Series Was Stolen
Sk has been slapped with a lawsuit by writer Benjamin Crushcov, who claims the fantasy Roman Empire series ‘Britannia’ was stolen.
EXCLUSIVE: Sky and the executive producer of Britannia have been slapped with a £6.5M ($8.5M) lawsuit in the UK by a writer who claims the fantasy Roman Empire series was stolen. In his particulars of claim, Crushcov said he created a heavily fictionalized historical drama, titled Tribus, as part of his studies at Bath Spa University in 2014. Robin Mukherjee, an EastEnders screenwriter who mentored Crushcov at university, found that similarities between Tribus and Britannia were “too many and too exact” to be dismissed as coincidence, according to the court document.
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