Joss Whedon and Lionsgate have been struck with a USD$10 million lawsuit launched by an author alleging the plot for 2012 horror film The Cabin in the Woods was largely lifted from a novel he self-published in 2006, reports The Wrap.
In the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, April 13, author Peter Gallagher alleges that The Cabin in the Woods “borrows heavily” from his book The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines and goes on to claim that, “in many respects, the elements in the two works are virtually identical.”
“Both works display a self-referential awareness of classic horror movie tropes and insert third-party puppeteers to manipulate the characters for the fulfillment of narrative requirements and the enjoyment of others,” claims the suit, which also goes on the assert that the “similarities between the characters in both works are striking” and list a number of “specific scene similarities.”
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In the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday, April 13, author Peter Gallagher alleges that The Cabin in the Woods “borrows heavily” from his book The Little White Trip: A Night in the Pines and goes on to claim that, “in many respects, the elements in the two works are virtually identical.”
“Both works display a self-referential awareness of classic horror movie tropes and insert third-party puppeteers to manipulate the characters for the fulfillment of narrative requirements and the enjoyment of others,” claims the suit, which also goes on the assert that the “similarities between the characters in both works are striking” and list a number of “specific scene similarities.”
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