Director Peter Jackson is suing New Line Cinema for a greater share of the licensing profits from the first film, The Fellowship of the Ring, in a suit which cites a failure to pay for script and song lyric use in a licensed EA videogame.
The visionary director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy names the EA videogame as one of the most important of 19 financial quibbles covered by the lawsuit, but doesn't specify exactly which of EA's games is the problem. EA has produced several, including games directly based on The Two Towers and Return of the King as well as spin-off RPG The Third Age; however only Vivendi's Fellowship of the Ring title, based on the books rather than the film, dealt with the first story.
Jackson, along with his partner Fran Walsh and their company Wingnut Films, listed the gaming grievance prominently amongst the various allegations. New Line has declined to discuss them, but Wingnut lawyer Peter Nelson said the company had "attempted to resolve our differences... through the normal auditing process. That has proven unsatisfactory so far."
Jackson is currently working on a remake of King Kong, which Ubisoft has signed on to turn into a videogame.
News source: gamesindustry.biz
The visionary director of the Lord of the Rings film trilogy names the EA videogame as one of the most important of 19 financial quibbles covered by the lawsuit, but doesn't specify exactly which of EA's games is the problem. EA has produced several, including games directly based on The Two Towers and Return of the King as well as spin-off RPG The Third Age; however only Vivendi's Fellowship of the Ring title, based on the books rather than the film, dealt with the first story.
Jackson, along with his partner Fran Walsh and their company Wingnut Films, listed the gaming grievance prominently amongst the various allegations. New Line has declined to discuss them, but Wingnut lawyer Peter Nelson said the company had "attempted to resolve our differences... through the normal auditing process. That has proven unsatisfactory so far."
Jackson is currently working on a remake of King Kong, which Ubisoft has signed on to turn into a videogame.
News source: gamesindustry.biz
Features of the game include:
- Freely transform between mech and jet at the push of a button.
- Tool up with an extensive armory of devastating weaponry.
- Customize your arsenal before each mission.
- Fight hordes of enemies through 14 challenging missions.
- Engage in spectacular battles in a variety of breathtaking environments.
- Leave your mark on the world as the “persistent damage system” records every bit of destruction.
- Assist your allied forces as they take their last stand.
- Experience one of the first games to use CG, allowing for movie-quality, eye-catching special effects.
As far as the games, I thought they were pretty good except for the controls, which were kinda bad.
It's Michael Jackson btw.
... and if you were rich, you wouldn't try to get more rich?
Come on, it's not the way Jackson thinks, it's the way most humans think.
Exactly. If you don't persue those who break your copyright, you lose your copyright (right?).
The way I understand it, New Line gave EA permission to use material which they had no right to give.
As for the script, PJ has the right on HIS MOVIE SCRIPT, wich is very different from the actual LOTR book series.
ABC and a half!
Makes me sick - donate some money to charity you scumbag.
Try working in a location on 3 movies for 3 years(I thin kit took them 3 years) .
::snicker::
Now there's a business card.
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