‘Road House’ Rumble: Amazon Denies AI Used To Create Actors’ Voices For Remake During Strike As Original Pic’s Scribe Sues To Shut Down New Movie
deadline.com“I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice,” Patrick Swayze’s James Dalton says in the original Road House from 1989.
That line from the screenplay co-written by David Lee Henry may have taken on a new significance for Amazon Studios, MGM Studios and United Artists on Tuesday with a new lawsuit aimed to TKO the Jake Gyllenhaal– and Conor McGregor-starring remake set to debut next week at SXSW.
The lawsuit accuses Amazon of a very serious digital sleight of hand during last year’s Hot Labor Summer. “This case arises from Defendants’ blatant copyright infringement due to their willful failure to license the requisite motion picture and ancillary rights to Hill’s Screenplay underlying their derivative 2004 Remake as required by law,” reads the copyright complaint filed today in California federal court (read the lawsuit here).
In fact, R. Lance Hill, who goes by David Lee Henry professionally, isn’t just saying he wants an injunction against the Doug Liman-directed more.
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