George Clooney is a plagiator?

The French writer accuses Hollywood stars of theft of the script French writer Stefani Vernho filed a lawsuit against the creators of the thriller “Syriana” - the Warner Brothers, the scriptwriter and director of Stephen Gaan, as well as the Section Eight, owned Sodaberg.

Syrian is a political thriller, taken based on the book of the American intelligence officer Robert Baer, “I don’t see anything: the true story of one CIA field agent to combat terrorism.” The action of this saga on the alliance of corporations and special services is unfolding in America, Europe and the Middle East. The main idea of the film is not new - oil as a source of power and money.

The Frenchwoman claims that the Syrian scenario is an exact copy of her own work “Overput” (“Oversight”), which tells about the CIA intrigues in large oil companies of the Persian Gulf region. Having finished his script in 2002, Stephanie Verno, who, incidentally, is a specialist in the oil policy of the countries of the Near and Middle East, registered it in 2004 in the French society of playwrights and composers and in a similar American organization.

Then, as the lawyer of the victim of Yasna Stark says, the writer “transferred him to the Canadian company close to Warner Brothers, in the hope that Canadians will help her release the film.”

According to the lawyer, preliminary hearings in the civilian civil court will be held on April 10 in Paris. Stefani Verno and her lawyer intend to demand the appointment of a specialist in copyright, who will be able to conduct an examination of two scenarios. So far, in preliminary order, the plaintiff requires the payment of two million euros for moral and financial damage caused to her by Hollywood. If the expert confirms the fact of plagiarism, George Clooney and the whole company will be judged, and if the case comes to court, the Frenchwoman hopes to bargain even more.

04/05/2006 / Anastasia Ivanova Material published in the newspaper No. 59 dated 06.04.2006.