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(March 31, 2003)
*A New York lawyer wants in on Latifah’s house party.
The lawyer, Marie Flaherty, says she wrote the screenplay
that inspired “Bringing Down the House,” the Queen Latifah
-Steve Martin comedy that was the No. 1 movie for 3 weeks
in a row with just over $100 million in box office receipts.
On Friday, Flaherty sued Latifah, Hyde Park
Entertainment Walt Disney Company, George Tobia
and Jason Filardi for $15 million.
According to the lawsuit, Flaherty hired Tobia
–a Boston lawyer–to shop her script “Amoral Dilemma.”
“Dilema” was about a lawyer who becomes involved with
a prisoner he meets online. A few months later Tobia sold
a script “Jailbabe.com” that he and Filardi wrote about ...
a lawyer who becomes involved with a prisoner he
meets online.
“Jailbabe” eventually became the Latifah flick.
When Flaherty confronted Tobia over the similarities
in their screenplays Tobia did what any fine lawyer would
do: he split hairs.
"Nonsense," Tobia told Flaherty, "Your
movie was a drama and mine was a comedy."
Flaherty is representing herself in the case.
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