Warner Bros is being sued over The Conjuring movies because ghosts aren't real Spooky.
- Apr 4, 2017
- 1 min read
A man who wrote a book about 'demonologists' Ed and Lorraine Warren is suing Warner Bros for $900 million over their Conjuring movies – and what the legal argument all boils down to is the idea that ghosts aren't real. Kind of.
As THR reports, this is the case of author Gerald Brittle. He published a book in 1980 called The Demonologist recounting the cases handled by Ed and Lorraine Warren, the self-styled paranormal investigators who were involved in a number of famous 'hauntings' including the Amityville hauntings and the Enfield poltergeist.
James Wan's highly successful 2013 movie The Conjuring features Ed and Lorraine (played by Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga) as principal characters and tells the story of the Perron family, another case documented in Brittle's book.
Brittle is suing Warners because he says he has exclusive rights to "create derivative works based on the Warrens' cases", which he secured from the Warrens in 1978, before publishing his book.
Therefore, Brittle argues that Lorraine Warren (Ed died in 2006) had no right to grant Warners permission to fictionalize her case files.
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