'Road House' brawl: Amazon used AI to replicate actors' voices during strike, lawsuit alleges
LOS ANGELES — Tensions over the upcoming "Road House" movie remake, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, are flaring again with the original film's screenwriter taking a legal swing at Amazon Studios.
On Tuesday, R. Lance Hill, who wrote the screenplay for the 1989 cult movie, sued Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its parent, Amazon Studios, for copyright infringement, seeking declaratory relief.
Hill, who goes by the pen name David Lee Henry, alleges the Seattle e-commerce giant ignored his ability, under the U.S. Copyright Act, to reclaim the rights for his 1986 screenplay, "Roadhouse," which spawned the original movie and this year's reboot, in which Gyllenhaal portrays an ex-UFC fighter who struggles to leave his brawling days behind.
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