Bay Area Novelist Sues Sony Pictures

This particular copyright infringement matter begins by the Bay in the late 1990s. After publishing suspense novel The Ultimate Rush, Oakland-based author Joe Quirk optioned the book to Warner Bros. and signed with powerhouse Hollywood agency CAA.

Then, last summer, many years after Quirk had given up hope of the project being adapted for the screen, his former literary agent ran into a New York City location shoot for Premium Rush, a Joseph Gordon-Levitt Sony Pictures drama written and directed by David Koepp.

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