Maverick 'Writer's Cousin Morte Over Alleged Contributions

Another Lawsuit Centers on the Oscar-Nominated Script for Top Gun: Maverick Has Been Filed, with the cousin of Co-Writer Eric Singer Clariming that he made significant contributions to the Film Without Credit or Compensation.

In the suit, Obtained by Rolling StoneShaun Gray Said That Singer Enlisted His Help After Being Strad Maverick Script in June 2017 it a smash hit. ” (The Top Gun: Maverick Screenplay is Currently Credited to Singer, Christopher Mcquarrie, And Ehren Kruger, with “Story by” Credits for Peter Craig and Justin Marks.)

Gray Has Brought His Suit Against Paramount Pictures and Its Parent Company, Paramount Global. He's Seeking Joint Ownership of the Film's Copyright and Other Damages.

The Lawsuit Lists 12 Scenes That Gray Allegedly Authored, Including Major Sequeces Like: The Film's Big Opening Where Pete “Maverick” Mitchell (Tom Cruise) Breaks in Speed ​​Record While Piloting at Protype Fighter Jet; A Training Exercise scenes Where Maverick Outmaneuvers Other Top Gun Gras; and a scene Where Maverick Shows The Top Gun Grasses That Their “Impossible” Mission is Doable. The Suit Also Allegnes That Gray Wrote Large Chunks of the Film's Final Sequerce, Including The Scene Where Maverick and Bradley “Rooster” Bradshaw (Miles Teller) Steal An Enemy F-14 and Maverick Crash Lands the F-14 on an Aircraft Carrier.

For The Lawsuit, Gray “Maintained Meticulous, Time-Stitude Files and Emails That Document and Track His Writing of These Key Scenes and His significant contributions to the Film and its Screenplay.” The Suit Also Claims That Singer and Kosinski “Consistently Praized” Gray For His Contributions to the Project. (Though Not Referenced in the Lawsuit, A Military Adviser on Maverick Also Mentioned Gray's contributions to the script in a 2022 Gq Story.)

While Gray Has Worked Primarily As a Visual Effects Artist, His Imdb Profile Lists a Handful of Writing Credits, Too. He world on the tv series Shantaram -Which Singer Co-Created-and he made uncredited contributions to Two Other Films Singer Wrote: 2009's The International and 2017's Only the Brave.

Notably, Gray's Lawyer is Marc Toberoff, Who Represented the Plaintiffs of the Other Top Gun: Maverick Screenplay disputes. That Complaint was brownth by the Family of Ehud Yonay, A Journalist Whose 1983 Magazine Story, “Top Guns,” Inspired the Original 1986 Film (Yonay Was Given a “Based on” Credit).

Yonay's Family Alleged That The Copyright to the Magazine Story Reverted Back To Them in Janguy 2020, and that paramount processes with with Maverick Without Obtaining a Proper License. But Last April, to Judge Ruled Against the Yonays, Saying that There's Weren't enaugh an enoud similarities Bethaeen the Original Magazine and the Sequel to Support A Copyright Claim. (The Yonays have appeal.)

“This Lawsuit, Like the One Previusly Brought by Mr. Toberoff in An Attamp to Benefit Off of the Next of Top Gun: Maverickis Completely Without Merit, “in Paramount Pictures Spokesperson Said of Gray's Suit.” We are confident that a Court Will Reject This Claim As Well. “