What happens when you make a crappy movie and game based on someone else's idea? You get sued. Well, at least that's how we like to do it in America. According to Reuters, Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich is searching the seas for buried treasure. Does he deserve to get paid?
The creator of Ghost Rider has sued Marvel Enterprises, Sony Pictures Entertainment and several entities over what he claims is an unauthorized "joint venture and conspiracy to exploit, profit from and utilize" his copyrights to the comic book character.
Gary Friedrich and his company filed the 61-page complaint April 4 in federal court in Illinois claiming 21 violations based on the production and marketing of Sony's recent "Ghost Rider," starring Nicolas Cage and Eva Mendes. Friedrich claims the copyrights used in the film and in related products reverted from Marvel to him in 2001.
Friedrich alleges copyright infringement, and accuses Marvel of waste for failing "to properly utilize and capitalize" on the Ghost Rider character. Marvel's attempts to do so, Friedrich claims, have only damaged the value of his work by failing to properly promote and protect the characters and by accepting inadequate royalties from co-defendants. Friedrich also claims that toymaker Hasbro and videogame firm Take-Two have improperly created merchandise based on the characters.
Hey Friedrich! I wanna know where da gold at!
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1:41 PM on 04.11.2007
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He should sue Nicholas Cage for being the lead in the film.
He had this fire thingy around his talk bubble... I always tried to imagine how that sounded like but no, I will not see the movie to find out.
P.S. Maybe Nicholas big fucking head and wide "7 finger" forehead was easier to CG. Did he joined the hair club?
Thank god I didn't pay to see it.
I feel bad for the real Ghostrider fans......such a pity.
"GG"
I just discovered that summatoid.com actually redirects to destructoid.com! What could be more fitting?!
There are companies who WILLINGLY sold Uwe Boll the rights to make films about their games. What the frak are they thinking?
Daredevil wasn't THAT bad. It was better than Hulk, which was better than Fantastic Four, which was better than Ghost Rider. Ghost Rider was BAD.
I like to think that everyone at Running with Scissors has to seduce and have sex with their mother before they're allowed to work there. Like a drug screening test.
It at least would justify Postal.
I haven't seen Fantastic Four, but ugh, Hulk was raunchy too. Ghost Rider was enough to keep my attention, probably because it was a comic book movie. Aside from that, it's definitely not a comic book film I'd watch again like the original Batman, though I haven't seen it in what feels like forever. I knew it was heading downhill once they announced Nicholas Cage, I seriously can't stand him.
Though, I would like to thank him for the hilarity that is "The Wicker Man." I haven't seen the film (nor would I ever want to), but this clip alone touched me in many ways.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itmLkH322Ro