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Originally Posted by CosmicPal
WTF is your gig, Baby Lee?
I am doing nothing but merely pointing out the hypothetical in that I find it rather disturbing Richard Linklater would develop a script with factual names in the characters without at first consulting with the real people in the first place.
Writers who leave the true identity of an autobiograhpical story without the consent of the character in writing- is asking for a lot of trouble. Defamation is a serious business, and all writers, agents, directors, and producers know that....
I think the "guys" feel like they are a reason behind the success of the film, and feel like they deserve a piece of that pie....so, after all these years, they finally think they might have something. Richard makes a movie about them and goes on to be a big timer in Hollywood, while the rest of them are stuck in small town Texas selling cars and fixing computers.
I'm just saying- writers know better than to publish something of an autobiographical nature without the consent of the characters in question.
If Richard Linklater failed to get their consent before selling the script to a producer- then he's one dumbazz screenwriter....I doubt that he is.
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I'm not trying to start a fight, but the very things you think "well he certainly wouldn't do
that" is what leads to these sorts of lawsuits.
I mean, you conjure this scenario where the guys now suing told him "it'd be cool" if he used their likeness and names, and signed a waiver releasing to Rick their names.
But "surely that's how it
must've happened" is not evidence.
I'd analogize it to Nejah Davenport laying cable in that girl's closet, and me coming on here an saying "well he'd have to be stupid to do that. The girl probably told him it was OK, that it was a toilet that just
looked a lot like a closet."