Alison Brie, Dave Franco's 'Together' director slams copyright lawsuit

"The plaintiff is doing nothing more than drumming up fifteen minutes of fame for a failed project, demonstrated by the fact they contacted the press before filing their lawsuit, and did so without doing the most basic due diligence," the statement reads. Noting that Shanks registered the initial version of Together's script with the WGA in 2019, almost a whole year before the plaintiff sent its script to WME, the response adds that "Almost all of the alleged similarities were in Shanks' original 2019 script, much of it inspired by his own life and relationship with his longtime girlfriend." The lawsuit alleged that the defendants rejected the initial offer "because they wanted to produce the film themselves and have WME package the project with one of the agency's own writers."

Author: Mekishana Pierre

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