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Martin Scorsese Settles Lawsuit With Screenwriter Who Accused Him of Taking $500,000 to Do Nothing


Martin Scorsese has settled with an aspiring filmmaker who claimed the director did nothing after taking $500,000 to help develop his script.

Martin Scorsese has settled a lawsuit from an aspiring screenwriter who accused him of pocketing $500,000 to help develop a World War II movie — and then doing nothing. Simon Afram wrote “ Operation: Fortitude,” a screenplay about the Allied effort to deceive the German army as to the whereabouts of the Normandy invasion. “The expectation of those new to the film industry is that a great idea or script will instantly be transformed into an Academy Award-winning work of art, when the reality is that it can take many years to even attempt to develop a movie,” they wrote.

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