Jan. 31, 2018
Screenwriter sues over ‘haunted boat’ script
The plaintiff claims his career coach stole his idea for a haunted boat horror film.
LOS ANGELES — A fledgling screenwriter accused his career coach of stealing a screenplay about a haunted boat and offering it to another writer in a lawsuit filed in federal court.
Plaintiff Keith Russell claimed in the lawsuit filed Monday that in 2015 he developed the movie concept — revolving around a family that purchases a haunted old boat made from sacred wood with a sordid history of murder-suicides. He registered the screenp...
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