This from
Entertainment Weekly, August 22, 2011:
Stan Lee Media, Inc. files suit against 'Conan'
Stan Lee Media, Inc., a company founded by comic book legend Stan Lee, wants a judge to rule that it is still the rightful owner of the character Conan the Barbarian. In a lawsuit filed Aug. 19 in federal court in L.A. and obtained by EW, SLMI is demanding 100 percent of the film’s proceeds. The company claims its bankruptcy in 2001 would have prevented anyone from taking the rights to the Conan character away. In the suit, Stan Lee Media, Inc. claims the company was betrayed by a former lawyer who made an illegal deal to transfer the rights to another company that would later green-light
this summer’s Conan movie. The poorly reviewed remake
earned $10 million on its opening weekend, barely beating the debut of the original
Conan the Barbarian in 1982.
COMMENT: Give the mostly negative reviews, you'd think Stan would disown this flick.
Rotten Tomatoes link:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/conan_the_barbarian_2011/
Lastly, Stan did NOT invent Conan, with was originally written by R.E. Howard!
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