R. Lance Hill, the screenwriter behind the original 1989 “Road House” movie, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against Amazon MGM Studios and United Artists for alleged copyright infringement, TheWrap has learned.
Hill, under his pen name David Lee Henry, wrote the initial 1986 screenplay on spec that the first “Road House” was based on. The initial 1989 cult classic was distributed by United Artists. “Thereafter, United Artists produced and exploited the 1989 motion picture, ‘Road House’ (the ‘1989 Film’) based on the Screenplay,” the lawsuit says.
Hill alleged that Amazon disregarded his ability, under copyright law, to reclaim the rights to his old screenplay with the making of this reboot where Jake Gyllenhaal plays an ex-UFC fighter struggling to leave his violent past.
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