The Truman Capote charity has asked Paramount Studios for $ 20 million for the script for a remake of “Breakfast at Diamonds,” an adaptation that circulated internally and never made it to production.
The Truman Capote charity has been in charge of filing the lawsuit.
The lawsuit began in Los Angeles Superior Court as a vehicle to determine whether the rights to the new adaptation and sequel had reverted to a Capote entity. The entity, Truman Capote Literary Trust, which is in charge of managing the writer’s heritage, registered last Friday the petition in full legal battle for the rights of history, written in 1958 and adapted to the big screen in 1961, directed by Blake Edwards and starring Audrey Hepburn.
The current Hollywood craze to redo classics from the past has made the iconic film want to explode. But this action, for many a sacrilege, has reached the courts.
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Last November, the commissioner of the Capote charity, Alan Schwartz, filed a lawsuit alleging that the audiovisual rights to the book belong to Capote’s heirs after his death in 1984. But the studio and the entity have different interpretations of a deal they signed in 1991 to record a prequel and sequel to ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s,’ as it was originally called.
The plaintiff alleges that if a film was not shot within a specified timeframe, the intellectual property would once again remain the exclusive property of the Truman Capote Literary Trust, something that Paramount denies and calls “inconceivable” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
In recent months the case has been taken from the Los Angeles Superior Court to the California Court. Now the charity has included an amendment asking Paramount for $ 20 million in compensation for a script to make a new movie based on the story. Although it did not leave the study’s offices, this draft allegedly damaged the value of the intellectual property.
For its part, Paramount claims the audiovisual rights to the tape to film a series, a project for which the charity already has its eyes on it and for which it has received numerous offers, but has presumably had trouble continuing while Paramount claim the rights.
