The Jake Gyllenhaal-starring “Road House” remake is facing two major hurdles ahead of its release.
This week, screenwriter R. Lance Hill, filed a lawsuit against MGM Studios and its parent company, Amazon, alleging copyright infringement and the use of AI to skirt a deadline in violation of the new actors’ and directors’ guild deals.
In documents obtained by Fox News Digital filed in U.S. Central District Court in Los Angeles, Hill and his attorney, Marc Toberoff, allege that Amazon and MGM ignored his right under the Copyright Act to recover copyright of his original “Road House” script.
Hill, who also uses the pen name David Lee Henry, wrote the screenplay “on spec,” which means of his own initiative, and then transferred his copyright to the studio United Artists in 1986, who produced the finished film in 1989.
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Patrick Swayze starred in the original, released in 1989. It was successful upon its original release and gained cult status over the years thanks to cable television.
Under the Copyright Act, Hill was allowed to regain ownership of his screenplay by Nov. 11, 2023, and he says he began the process in late 2021 to get his rights back from United Artists, which was folded…
