Matt och Ross Duffer, skaparna bakom Netflix-succén Stranger Things, har hamnat i blåsväder då de nu anklagas för att ha stulit idén/konceptet bakom TV-serien. Det är TV-regissören Charlie Kessler som nu stämt bröderna eftersom han tydligen var personen som först kom på hela grejen med en bunt ungar som råkar snubbla över en alien-invasion. Entertainment Weekly skriver följande:
"A filmmaker is accusing Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer of ripping off his idea for Netflix's sci-fi hit series. In a new lawsuit, Charlie Kessler explains he made a short film called "Montauk," about government experiments. The film premiered in 2012 and won an award at the Hamptons International Film Festival. Kessler claims he pitched the idea to the Duffer brothers in 2014 at a party at the Tribeca Film Festival for a series called The Montauk Project, and later "presented materials" from their representatives detailing the project. Then the Duffers sold Stranger Things to Netflix in 2015 under the Montauk title.
Stranger Things was originally set in Montauk, Long Island, but the show changed its setting to Indiana (and filmed in Georgia). Kessler's original Montauk outline has several story beats that echo Stranger Things: A young boy who disappears, a cop with a haunted past vows to find him, there's mysterious conspiracy at a nearby military base that's conducting secret experiments on children, and a monster that's created by a portal to another dimension that resembles the child's toy." Länk
Vad tror du om detta, har Dufferz norpat idén till sin serie?
"Haaaar ni verkligen stulit den här serien? Allvarligt?"