Perez Hilton on the Stranger Things lawsuit

Apr. 19th, 2019 06:51 pm
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OK, this is definitely a twist we didn’t see coming…

Remember last year when we told you the Duffer Brothers were getting sued by a filmmaker who claimed they ripped off his idea to make Stranger Things?

Well, that case is moving forward despite the Duffers’ best efforts, and that could be bad not just for them but for everyone who loves the show.

Here’s the basis for the guy’s case:

Charlie Kessler wrote a film called Montauk about military experiments in Montauk, New York.
He claims he met Matt and Ross Duffer at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2014 and pitched the idea of a TV series version to them
Later the Duffers used his ideas to create their show, which they sold to Netflix
The Duffers did use the name Montauk for their initial pitch of Stranger Things and intended it to be set in the town of Montauk, NY instead of Hawkins, Indiana
The Duffers using the name Montauk would be a smoking gun… except it’s a real place.

Kessler didn’t invent a town full of “various urban legends, and paranormal and conspiracy theories” — Montauk, NY really exists and has been inspiring science fiction stories with its lore since the ’80s. The Duffers claim they tried to write a film about the town as early as 2010.

Frankly, the ideas Kessler says he put forward to the Duffers in their 2014 meeting sound too generically sci-fi to us; they make it sound as similar to X-Files, Eerie Indiana, Eureka, and Haven as to the final product of Stranger Things. We mean, no upside-down, no nostalgia, no Stephen King or John Carpenter or Steven Spielberg homages with telekinetic girls and kids on bikes.
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