Ahh yes, the might power of court action. With all the “super-hero” type movies coming out these days I’m surprised something like this didn’t happed sooner.
Apparently, the good folks over at Fox Studios (The folks responsible for bringing us the X-Men films) are sueing the folks over at Sony for allegedly making a film that is too similar to the X-Men and setting it’s release date at the same time as X-Men 3. To happy go lucky folks over at the IMDB give us this:
(Fox) filed a lawsuit on Monday against Sony Pictures and Revolution Studios to delay the release of Zoom – a movie they believe is too similar to their X-Men films. Both projects center on children who possess special powers and are shunned by normal society before they enroll in a special to school to learn how to harness their abilities. Twentieth Century Fox and Marvel Enterprises allege Sony Pictures and Revolution Studios deliberately brought forward the release date of their movie in an attempt to attract cinema-goers before X-Men 3 is released on May 26, 2006. Legal papers filed in a California federal court state: “Just days after Fox announced X3 would be released on May 26, 2006, Sony and Revolution deliberately moved up Zoom’s release so that it would come two weeks before, instead of 11 weeks after the release of X3.”
You know… when you read that over… it looks like Fox may actually have a point. The themes are quite similar and the way they worded it above basically makes it sound like a carbon copy of X-Men. I’m curious to see how this plays out. What do you think?
