Help Peter Beagle sue the film-house that made "The Last Unicorn"

Cory Doctorow 5:16 pm Tue Mar 28, 2006

A flat-broke, much-loved fantasy novelist is trying to raise money to help sue a scumbag film-house that owes him a bundle for adapting his famous novel. Peter Beagle, author of The Last Unicorn, got savagely ripped off by a UK film-house that made a commercially successful animated film based on his book and won't pay him for it. Connor Cochran writes:

Granada [the scumbag film-house in question] has hardened their stance (even after — or perhaps because of — being shown evidence that the numbers they are standing on are fraudulent). Their current position is classic Hollywood: they claim with a straight face that a movie which only cost around $3 million to make back in 1982, and which has earned at least $20-25 million, is still $15 million in the red (!) because of "interest charges," and therefore they don't need to share a penny of their large windfall income from it.

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(Thanks, Connor!)

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