Luca writer Simon Stephenson has claimed that Payne's movie, written by David Hemingson, contains 'brazen' similarities to his unproduced screenplay Frisco
It just wouldn’t be Oscars season without at least one big accusation or scandal falling on one of its potential winners in the lead-up to the awards—and apparently “The dog from Anatomy Of A Fall is just too dang cute” wasn’t cutting it. Variety reports that Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers has now been accused of plagiarism by Luca writer Simon Stephenson, who claims that its screenplay “has been plagiarised line-by-line” from his own unproduced 2013 script, Frisco.
Meanwhile, his 2013 script for Frisco was good enough to land at number 3 on that year’s Black List, the list of great, as-yet-unproduced screenplays, charming readers with its story of a broken-down older professional getting a bit of spark back by connecting with a difficult 15-year-old and yeah, you can totally see where this is going, right? Bolstering the plagiarism case is the fact that Stephenson seems to have proof that Payne, who reportedly worked on shaping the story of The Holdovers...
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