CBS and NBC Producer in Legal Battle Over The Firm TV Adaptation
THR Esq. has the scoop on a nasty legal fight between CBS and NBC over the television adaptation of John Grisham’s The Firm. CBS is suing the show’s writer/producer Lukas Reiter–not NBC itself–claiming they paid Reiter $250,000 to develop the show before he brought it to NBC.
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The lawsuit says Reiter later asked if he could take the project elsewhere and CBS said no but “Entertainment One and Reiter have moved full speed ahead, in direct violation of CBS’s rights,” according to the suit.
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