Despite the fact that The Gentlemen: The Mafia Lords film is not one of the most remembered by director Guy Ritchie, it seems that it will be the one that will cause him the most headaches, because as Variety has published, the british has been sued by the writer and screenwriter Mickey De Hara for possible plagiarism of his script.
According to the post, Years ago, Ritchie contacted De Hara about writing a sequel to RockNRolla. (based on the screenwriter’s own experience who spent time in jail after being caught in possession of cannabis and marijuana), but when the script was presented to him, Ritchie told him the project was not going ahead.
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Trailer of The Gentlemen (Gentlemen of the mafia), the new film by Guy Ritchie
What was De Hara’s surprise when he saw that in 2019 it was coming to theaters The Gentlemen, which he considers to be a “substantial” reproduction of his script as it contains “unique aspects of his work”, such as when Colin Farrell’s character has a confrontation in a coffee shop with some teenagers and ends up pouring vinegar in their eyes.
In addition, the film starring Matthew McConaughey also deals with a young man who runs a prominent marijuana business and an aristocrat with a son with drug addiction problems. It is because of that De Hara demands $250,000 from Ritchie as payment for his scriptplus a portion of the profits generated by the film.
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De Hara already warned Ritchie
The truth is that this lawsuit does not catch Guy Ritchie new because the screenwriter has already warned the director of the many similarities with his script that he had seen in The Gentleman, to which the Brit replied: “Mickey, my people and I have tried to contact you for years and there was no answer. Let’s sit down and talk.”
However, when De Hara asked Guy Ritchie to include him in the credits of The Gentlemen: The Gentlemen of the Mafia before its video release, the director replied that “it was too late” and offered to put his name on his next film, something De Hara refused as he did not want to “take credit for something he hasn’t done”.
