The family of the author whose article inspired the 1986 Tom Cruise movie “Top Gun” on Monday sued Paramount Pictures for copyright infringement over this year’s blockbuster sequel “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The lawsuit by Shosh Yonay and Yuval Yonay, who live in Israel and are respectively Ehud’s widow and son, seeks unspecified damages, including profits from “Top Gun: Maverick,” and to block distribution of the movie or further sequels. “Top Gun: Maverick” is this year’s biggest box office hit, generating $291-million in North America and $548.6-million globally in its first 10 days of release.
But the Yonays said Paramount deliberately ignored how the copyright reverted to them in January 2020, “thumbing its nose” at federal copyright law.
Crooks. They waited until the film was released and made tons of money so that they could sue for whatever bogus infringement case they have.