Sylvester Stallone's legal victory for The Expendables
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit which accused Sylvester Stallone of stealing ideas for The Expendables from another screenwriter.
The Hollywood tough guy co-wrote the script for the 2010 blockbuster, which united him with action heroes including Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Last October (11), screenwriter Marcus Webb filed a lawsuit in New
York alleging The Expendables was based on his script for a project
called The Cordoba Caper, claiming Stallone's movie was "strikingly
similar and in some places identical" to his own work.
Webb demanded unspecified damages for copyright infringement as
well as an injunction to stop work on a forthcoming sequel to The
Expendables.
Stallone denied the allegations, with his legal team arguing that
he had written several drafts of The Expendables before Webb's
script began circulating in Hollywood.
During a summary judgment on Monday (25Jun12), Judge Jed Rakoff
sided with Stallone and dismissed the lawsuit, according to The
Hollywood Reporter.
The Expendables 2 is due for release in August (12).