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Paramount Slammed For Trying To “Scapegoat” ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Writer’s Cousin & Infringement Action; Studio Disses “Completely Without Merit” Screenplay Suit
There's a family dogfight in the courts over Top Gun: Maverick & who really wrote what on the Tom Cruise flick
Filed last night in federal court in New York, a copyright infringement suit from the cousin of the Oscar nominated Eric Warren Singer claims plaintiff Shaun Gray “wrote key scenes for the screenplay that became the Film’s central edge-of-your-seat dramatic action sequences that made it a smash hit. This is all against the backdrop of not only Paramount’s anticipated merger with Skydance, but the release of the apparently last Mission Impossible film for Cruise next month and a Top Gun 3 movie in development. Officially, the Academy Award nominated screenplay for Top Gun: Maverick lists Singer, Kruger, and long time Cruise creative partner and Mission Impossible – The Final Reckoning filmmaker Christopher McQuarrie as the writers based on a story by Peter Craig and Justin Marks
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