Paramount Sued Over Godfather Videogame
Mario Puzo's son has sued Paramount Pictures complete a claim that the studio failed to pay royalties for the 2006 videogame adaptation of The Godfather.
A USA Today report says Anthony Puzo is seeking much $1 million in damages along behalf of his begetter's estate for breach of contract. The lawsuit claims that Mario Puzo ready-made a deal with Paramount in 1992 to receive a "significant share" of any income derived from audio or visual products that made use of material usurped from The Godfather movies.
Puzo claims the organization was made because his father was a Whitney Moore Young Jr. and struggling generator WHO sold the rights to arise The Godfather novel into a movie to Paramount for an "extremely low Mary Leontyne Pric." The movie went on to advance tierce Honorary society Awards, including Foremost Picture and Best Thespian for Marlon Brando.
Supported the movie, The Godfather: The Game was released in 2006, featuring voice acting provided by respective actors from the movies including St. James Caan, Robert Duvall and Abe Vigoda. Francis Ford Francis Ford Coppola, who directed The Godfather movies, criticized the release of the game, according to a GamesIndustry report, claiming he was oblivious of its developing. "I had absolutely zipp to do with the game and I disapprove," he said. "I think it's a misuse of film."
The game was released to average review scores, with Metacritic rankings across all platforms in the mid-70s. Electronic Arts, the game's developer and publisher, is not named in the suit.
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