Michael Oher and the Tuohys, author Michael Lewis — who wrote the book which the Oscar-nominated film was adapted from — is weighing in.Recently, Oher — the former NFL star who was the inspiration behind the book and the film — filed legal documents in Tennessee court requesting it terminate a conservatorship after alleging Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy lied about adopting him and tricked him into making them his conservators shortly after he turned 18.Oher claims the Tuohys made millions off his name while he never received a dime, after the film — starring Sandra Bullock, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Tim McGraw, Lily Collins and Kathy Bates — earned more than $300 million at the box office.However, Lewis claims that, despite the film's success, none of the real-life figures who inspired the film have gotten nearly any money from it in the 13 years since its release.«Everybody should be mad at the Hollywood studio system,» Lewis recently told The Washington Post. «Michael Oher should join the writers strike.

It's outrageous how Hollywood accounting works, but the money is not in the Tuohys' pockets.»The book and film are centered around the Tuohy family taking in Oher and helping transform his life, on and off the field, to become an NFL lineman.Lewis claims that creative accounting and other infamous Hollywood tactics led to far less in royalty checks for himself and the Tuohy family than expected.

Lewis claims that he ultimately only got paid around $350,000 in total thus far, and that the Tuohy family would have received the same amount.Lewis claims that Oher began to distance himself from the family, and had allegedly started to refuse to accept royalty checks when they came in.«What I feel really sad about is I.

'The Blind Side' Author Michael Lewis Weighs in On Michael Oher's Conservatorship Lawsuit

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