Writer Simon Stephenson, who has a story by credit for the Pixar animated film “Luca,” ignited a debate in the screenwriting community Saturday following his claims that a script of his was plagiarized by “The Holdovers.” While the charges are serious, many screenwriters have taken issue with the charge that the Oscar-nominated screenplay was plagiarized “line-by-line” from Stephenson’s 2013 Black List script “Frisco.”
Among them is “The Good Wife” co-creator Robert King, who argued that the similarities are so tenuous that this isn’t a story.
“Read the attached 33-page craziness that supposedly points out the plagiarism,” King wrote.
He went on to share a screenshot of alleged “line-by-line” plagiarism from a document Stephenson assembled arguing his case, with the pages seeming to share little in common.
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