Paramount Pictures has urged the court to drop the plagiarism lawsuit filed against the studio. An Israeli writer’s family previously filed a lawsuit alleging that the producers unlawfully based the film ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ on work by Ehud Yonay from 1983.
“Prosecutors don’t have a monopoly on Top Gun’s work”
The case concerns the 1983 article Top Guns, which was about the lives of American jet pilots. The makers of the first Top Gun film from 1986 had been inspired by this story and had paid writer Ehud Yonay for it as well.
For the 2022 sequel, Paramount is said to have again — but this time unlawfully, according to the plaintiffs — drawn on the Israeli’s article. The film studio denies this and says it will defend itself vigorously in court in this case.
“It is clear that Top Gun: Maverick – contrary to the plaintiffs’ irrelevant and misleading alleged comparison – did not reproduce any of the copyrighted work contained in the article,” Paramount wrote to the court , according to entertainment website Deadline . “Prosecutors don’t have a monopoly on Top Gun ‘s work .”