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Paramount Pictures filed a motion on Friday to throw out thecopyright lawsuitagainstTop Gun: Maverick.
Paramount had previously obtained the film rights to author Ehu Yonay’s article for the originalTop Gun. A hearing is now set for Sept. 26 to go over the case.
Shosh and Yuval Yonay, the self-declared “heirs” of author Ehu, accused the studio of a “conscious failure to re-acquire the requisite film and ancillary rights to the Yonays' copyrighted Story prior to the completion and release of their derivative 2022 sequel” in a suit filed in June in Los Angeles federal court.
In a prior statement, Paramount said: “These claims are without merit, and we will defend ourselves vigorously.”
Tom Cruise inTop Gun: Maverick(2022).Scott Garfield/Paramount
Maverickpicks up 30 years after Pete “Maverick” Mitchell’s (Tom Cruise) graduation from TOPGUN Naval aviation program, when he is called back as an instructor for the elite fliers.
DirectorJoe KosinskitoldPolygonthat giving Cruise, 60, “an emotional reason to return to” his iconic character more than three decades later “was honestly the element that really grabbed Tom,” after an initialhesitance to make anotherTop Gunfilm.
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“The second thing was, what’s Maverick been doing?” added Kosinski, 48. “And this is kind of my own passion, you know, coming through and pitching the Darkstar sequence [in the beginning], just being someone who has always loved airplanes and aerospace and studied aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering and lovedThe Right Stuff.”
“So the idea of finding him as a test pilot on the bleeding edge of what’s possible seemed to me like the perfect way to find him, and Tom loved that,” the director said.
source: people.com
