Screenwriter -- You Guys Stole My Justin Timberlake Movie!
20th Century Fox Screenwriter -- You Stole My Justin Timberlake Flick!!
A screenwriter claims he's a victim of Hollywood bullies -- and that the movie he wrote that became a Justin Timberlake feature was flat out stolen from him.
Odysseus Lappas filed a lawsuit -- obtained by TMZ -- in which he claims he wrote a screenplay in 1996 called "Time Card," about a man who lives in a future world where people died at age 25 unless they can purchase more time. Sounds interesting.
He claims it also sounded interesting to 20th Century Fox, which offered him $80k for the rights. He turned the offer down because he wanted to produce and/or direct the film.
Fast forward to 2011, when Fox released the film, "In Time," starring Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried. Lappas says the movie is a ripoff of virtually every element of "Time Card."
"In Time" grossed $37.5 mil. -- not exactly "Titanic."
Lappas wants $4.5 mil. But you know Hollywood, what he really wants is to direct.
