Massachusetts Writer to Fox TV: 'You Lied to Me'
Claims of intellectual theft are nothing new in Hollywood. However, it is a rare instance when the fictional protagonist of the accused thievery clearly stands above the rest as the individual seemingly best equipped to resolve the legal matter at hand.
Plaintiffs Roderick Anscombe and John Hertz insist that the Fox TV series Lie to Me is based on the former’s 2004 novel, The Interview Room. The pair allege that in the summer and fall of 2007, they spent three months adapting the book into a TV pilot script only to be told the network was abandoning the project.
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