A screenwriter by the name of Timothy Patrick McLanahan is suing the creators of Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol, starring Tom Cruise, for $1 billion dollars.
According to Radar, McLanahan is suing for the revenue generated by the film’s ticket, DVD, blue ray, and rental sales, which is estimated to be close to the $1 billion dollar mark. McLanahan claims in the documents that Ghost Protocol is a copyright infringement against his screenplay called Head On from 1998.
“Although I never authorized my Head On script to be sent to Creative Artist Agency by William Morris, William Morris still sent the script to CAA and then shopped the script all around the world, including Tom Cruise’s Rick Nicita, top agent with Creative Artist Agency.”
BBC News reports that the film took in $700 million worldwide, and that none of the defendants have yet to make a response. A list of those defendants includes, but is not limited to, Tom Cruise, Paramount Pictures, and Skydance Pictures. The lawsuit was originally filed on December 20, 2013.
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