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Netflix’s Seine-Set Shark Thriller ‘Under Paris’ Faces Take Down Threat Amid Original Story Lawsuit

Netflix’s Seine-Set Shark Thriller ‘Under Paris’ Faces Take Down Threat Amid Dispute Over Origin Of Original Story Idea

Netflix ’s Seine-set Shark thriller Under Paris could be taken off the platform within days of its release on June 5 due to legal proceedings brought by a writer-director who claims it was developed without his knowledge from an original idea he registered with France ’s rights management body SACD in 2011. Across 2013 and early 2014, he developed a 23-page treatment for the feature in collaboration with screenwriter Emily Barnett which he re-registered with SACD in January 2014 as well as France’s National Cinema Centre (CNC) in February 2014, as part of an application for scriptwriting support. Per the lawsuit, the registered synopsis at that point read: “A young policewoman, a diver at the Paris River brigade, finds herself confronted with an unprecedented natural phenomenon, embodied by a gigantic catfish, terribly aggressive and a killer of human beings.

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