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They Sort of, Kind of Already Remade ‘Escape From New York’
A Paris appeals court has ruled that writer Luc Besson must pay more than $500,000 (450,000 euros) in damages to John Carpenter and rights holder StudioCanal for plagiarizing Carpenter’s 1981 classic Escape From New York when he made the 2012 film Lockout, Deadline reports. Agence France-Presse reported on the ruling today.
How long until this iMDB credit gets changed?
This comes after Besson had appealed an original ruling in the case last fall that ordered Besson, his EuropaCorp production company and Besson’s Lockout co-writers/directors Stephen St. Leger and James Mather to pay $95,000 (85,000 euros) to co-writer/director Carpenter, co-writer Nick Castle and StudioCanal.
In Lockout, Guy Pierce stars as a wrongly convicted man who is offered his freedom if he can rescue the U.S President’s daughter (Maggie Grace) from an outer space prison taken over by violent inmates.
Escape From New York centers on Snake Plissken (Kurt Russell), a soldier-turned-bank robber who is forced to rescue the U.S. President when his plane crash-lands in Manhattan which has become a giant maximum-security prison taken over by inmates.
Carpenter’s original lawsuit sought $2.4 million (2.2M euros), saying his movie was copied.
A Besson spokesman told AFP today they were “very surprised by the ruling, but the judges have spoken and we will accept their judgment.”
Surprised as they may be, the court has ruled it as a plagiarized story, which means Lockout is pretty much an unauthorized remake of Escape From New York.
Have any of you seen Lockout?
After pulling in $28 million at the worldwide box office this month, director (and star) Dev Patel’s critically acclaimed action-thriller Monkey Man is now available to watch at home.
You can rent Monkey Man for $19.99 or digitally purchase the film for $24.99!
Monkey Man is currently 88% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, with Bloody Disgusting’s head critic Meagan Navarro awarding the film 4.5/5 stars in her review out of SXSW back in March.
Meagan raves, “While the violence onscreen is palpable and painful, it’s not just the exquisite fight choreography and thrilling action set pieces that set Monkey Man apart but also its political consciousness, unique narrative structure, and myth-making scale.”
“While Monkey Man pays tribute to all of the action genre’s greats, from the Indonesian action classics to Korean revenge cinema and even a John Wick joke or two, Dev Patel’s cultural spin and unique narrative structure leave behind all influences in the dust for new terrain,” Meagan’s review continues.
She adds, “Monkey Man presents Dev Patel as a new action hero, a tenacious underdog with a penetrating stare who bites, bludgeons, and stabs his way through bodies to gloriously bloody excess. More excitingly, the film introduces Patel as a strong visionary right out of the gate.”
Inspired by the legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man stars Patel as Kid, an anonymous young man who ekes out a meager living in an underground fight club where, night after night, wearing a gorilla mask, he is beaten bloody by more popular fighters for cash. After years of suppressed rage, Kid discovers a way to infiltrate the enclave of the city’s sinister elite. As his childhood trauma boils over, his mysteriously scarred hands unleash an explosive campaign of retribution to settle the score with the men who took everything from him.
Monkey Man is produced by Jordan Peele’s Monkeypaw Productions.
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