Rami Malek as Freddie Mercury in Bohemian Rhapsody (Nick Delaney / 20th Century Fox)
Three years after the release of one of the most talked about films of the last decade, which even won four Oscars, its screenwriter is suing the production company that worked on the film for a sum that could reach millions of dollars.
Screenwriter Anthony McCartney, who wrote the film “Bohemian Rhapsody” about the band Kevin and its legendary lead singer, Freddie Mercury, filed a lawsuit about a week ago against Graham King’s GK Films production company (whose initials are the company name). McCarthy claims the company lied to him to avoid paying the part he deserved from the film’s huge revenue, which brought in $ 911 million from ticket sales in theaters around the world.
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According to the screenwriter, while conducting contacts with GK and representatives of “Kevin” members, he was promised 5% of the film’s revenue – but after years of procrastinating and selling the production and distribution rights to Disney-owned “20th Century Fox” studios, after its release in November 2018, he was told by GK that the film did not win at all but lost $ 51 million. This is despite the fact that the production cost was $ 55 million – which leaves the vast majority of the revenue from ticket sales as profit.
McCarthan’s lawyer claims that the excuse used by GK people to avoid paying the amount due to the screenwriter is a change in the method of calculating profits once the rights were sold to Fox – but he claims that this argument does not align with their conduct in other films and 20th Century Fox. The latter, by the way, is not a party to the lawsuit at all, because the screenwriter did not negotiate with her at all, but the defendants claim that the huge studio should be a party to the hearing.
The lawsuit calls for a re-examination of the economic data regarding the production of the film under the supervision of the Los Angeles District High Court, and the payment of 5% of the profits to be approved in the examination alongside compensation.
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