Okay, check this shit out

[kierthos]

Lawsuit over "Pirates of the Caribbean"

This guy claims that beginning in the 1980s, he "created and wrote a number of original works including drawings, screenplays, outlines, blueprints, storyboards and other original materials" for what he termed a "Super Natural Pirate Movie."

Okay, sure, it's possible, and even likely that he did such work. Hey, it's often been said (especially with regard to the entertainment industry) that there are no original ideas. I refer you to the number of remakes in movies and songs. (Side note: A Miami Vice movie? WTF? Who green-lighted that piece of shit?)

Here's the thing. The first PotC movie came out in 2003. It is now, unless I am horribly fucked up on big red pills, 2006. That's a three year gap, folks. Was this guy trapped on a deserted island (with rum?) the whole time?

Okay, knowing a little something (very little) about the way lawsuits work, I can imagine that he may have started threatening a lawsuit shortly after the first movie, and it's only because the second one is out that the story is getting any press. (Well, that, and he's actually filed a lawsuit and an injunction.)

Still, Disney has bigger and badder lawyers. And since PotC 2 has already made, what, 170 million, I can't see them even thinking about stopping that money-train without a fight.

Comments

Hello old chap

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

Given you have access to good printing facilities, would you be interested in testing out my cardgame old chap? You can give me a better idea of the print quality people would be able to get hold of the game at if they got it done 'professionally' and how much it would cost them.

Re: Hello old chap

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Sure, I'd be willing to give it a look-see. What file format do you have it in? (If you say Quark Express, I keel you.) We can work with pretty much any file format, but our preferred ones are PDF or Publisher files, hell... Word Documents if you got nothing else...

Re: Hello old chap

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

PDF.
E-mail me direct and I'll give you the link.

grim AT postmort DOT demon DOT co DOT uk

Re: Hello old chap

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

You should get an e-mail from me in about thirty minutes to an hour and a half from now. Depends on if I go to IHOP for breakfast after work or not. (Mmmm... grits...)