![]() ![]() “As RadicalMedia and Robert Redford’s Sundance Productions are moving forward on the developmental production of a television p roperty based on the contractual grant of rights for his novel Forever,” says the letter ( read it here) from RadicalMedia’s General Counsel Joan Aceste, “we request that Warner Bros. ![]() ![]() However, Forever the novel rights holders RadicalMedia at least want a name change for the series set to debut on Tuesdays this fall. Bulger, on the other hand, note that the titles are the same, the location is the same and that both the character in the novel and in the upcoming TV show from writer/EP Matt Miller, EPs Dan Lin and Jennifer Gwartz, and director Brad Anderson are “seeking an answer concerning his immortality.” No legal action is in the cards yet, and even if it was, titles are not protected by copyright. ![]() The co-producers of docu Whitey: United States of America v. “This claim is baseless,” said a WBTV spokesperson today in response. Today RadicalMedia sent a pointed letter to producer Warner Bros TV claiming that the supernatural procedural unveiled last week at the upfronts “sounds rather similar” to the best-selling 2003 novel Forever by Pete Hamill about an immortal living in the Big Apple. EXCLUSIVE: The show about an immortal living in NYC hasn’t even hit the air yet, but ABC’s drama Forever already is getting some potential legal pushback. ![]()
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