Remember that idiotic sci-movie “The Day After Tomorrow” (from 2004) about how we’re f’ing up the environment and now tornadoes will start appearing in New York’s Times Square and my basement will turn into the next ice age? Well someone is claiming that the entire story is a theft. Namely, a Chinese writer from China. Li Jianmin, 43, filed a lawsuit against 20th Century Fox over alleged copyright infringement, saying the film copied the “creative conception and plots” of two stage plays he had written in 2001 and 2002, the Xinhua News Agency said.
Li said 308 scenes in the film were described in his plays, the report said.
The film’s director Roland Emmerich and five Chinese companies that imported, distributed and screened the movie were also named in the suit.
This will most likely get settled out of court for two reasons: 1) The case is being heard in China; 2) Well, #1 basically says it all. The Chinese will bamboozled the movie studios into paying, it’s pretty basic. That’s just how they like to roll over there.
It’s interesting that it took 3 years for case to happen, though…
South Park’s version of “The Day After Tomorrow”
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