{"id":4049,"date":"2011-12-01T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/cowboys-aliens-lawsuit-comic-book-writer-says-movie-producers-are-robbers\/"},"modified":"2011-12-01T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:45:00","slug":"cowboys-aliens-lawsuit-comic-book-writer-says-movie-producers-are-robbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/01\/cowboys-aliens-lawsuit-comic-book-writer-says-movie-producers-are-robbers\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Lawsuit — Comic Book Writer Says Movie Producers are Robbers!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Comic Book Writer<\/span> ‘Cowboys & Aliens’ Movie<\/span> Producers are Robbers!!!<\/span><\/p>\n

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You can’t legally own the exclusive right to produce a cowboy movie.\u00a0 And you can’t legally own the right to produce an alien movie.\u00a0 But a comic book writer claims he does own the combo and that’s why he’s suing the producers of “Cowboys & Aliens<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Steven Busti<\/strong> claims he created the concept for “Cowboys & Aliens” way back in 1994 — 17 years before the movie was produced.<\/p>\n

Busti wrote a comic called “Cowboys and Aliens” that was published in a comic book called, “Bizarre Fantasy<\/strong>.”\u00a0 Busti’s story line goes like this … aliens landed on planet Earth and invaded the Old West.\u00a0 That’s pretty much the same concept for the 2011 movie and the graphic novel published by the film’s producers 5 years earlier.\u00a0 Busti alleges many other similarities as well.<\/p>\n

So the question — Did the producers know about Busti before they penned the graphic novel and the movie?\u00a0 Well, according to a lawsuit filed today in federal court in Texas, Busti notes back in 1994, his “Cowboys and Aliens” was featured in Comic Shop News<\/em> on the same page that also featured a story about Scott Mitchell Rosenberg<\/strong> — who produced the 2011 film.\u00a0 So there!<\/p>\n

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Busti is suing for copyright infringement and is seeking unspecified damages. Worth noting … as poorly as it was reviewed, the movie made over $100 million.<\/p>\n

So far, no word back from any of the producers. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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