
The American writer Marcus Webb on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the Hollywood actor Sylvester Stallone, accusing him of copying his script when creating the unstoppable fighter in 2010, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters.
Webb claims that the script of the film "Unresponsive", which tells about a group of mercenaries hired to overthrow the Latin American dictator, "is amazingly similar and in some places is identical to" the script written by him called "The Cordoba Ceper).
According to the scenario of webba, a group of mercenaries is hired to defeat General Garce, an army commander in a small Latin American country. In the script of the film Stallone, the main villain is also General Gars, there are other similar moments, the text of the statement of claim says.
Webb requires compensation for copyright violations and intends to achieve the prevention of a repeated violation of his copyright in the sequel to the "uncontrollable", which will be released in 2012. He claims that he registered his story and script with the same plot in June 2006 in the Copyright Office Bureau.
The representative of Stallone Michelle Ruh refrained from commenting.
In addition to Stallone, such cinema stars as Dolf Londgren, Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Jet Lee, Bruce Willis also starred in the “irresistible” stars.