Three years after ”Top Gun: Maverick“Released, and its script is now in the middle of a mood. Visual effects Artist Shaun Gray, who has collaborated with” Top Gun: Maverick “screenwriter and cousin Eric Singer on two other films according to his IMDB profile, has tuning Paramount Pictures claiming he wrote at least a dozen “Maverick” scenes without credit or compensation.
Gray claimed that he worked on the script for five months with the singer and director Joseph Kosinski. Singer, Christopher McQuarrie and Ehren Kruger have writing credit for the feature (and has recently reunited for apple film “F1”), with Peter Craig and Justin Marks listed with a “story of” credit. “Top Gun: Maverick” was Oscar-nominated for best custom script after being released in 2022.
“This action seeks justice for Gray, a talented screenwriter, manipulated and exploited by Hollywood Power players and demands responsibility from the defendants who served wonderfully by malpulating Gray’s creative work,” says the mood. Gray claims he was the key to doing film be a “smash hit.” He also claims a joint ownership of the film’s copyright.
A Paramount spokesman said in a statement to Indieview that the mood is “completely without merits.” Gray’s lawyer Marc Toberoff in the past tuning Paramount on behalf of journalist Ehud Yonay’s family; Yonay wrote the article 1983 on which the original “Top Gun” was based. The atmosphere was secluded 2024 and is now on appeal.
“This trial, such as the one previously brought by Mr. Toberoff in an attempt to take advantage of the success of” Top Gun: Maverick “, is completely without merits,” said a Paramount -Tersman now about Toberoff’s other “Top Gun” case with Gray. “We are convinced that a court will also reject this claim.”
A source near “Top Gun: Maverick” considered that the atmosphere was a family’s dispute between singers and gray, and not a legitimate requirement against Paramount. Gray is called Singers “Top Gun: Maverick” writing assistant by the source.
Singer is listed as working with Gray on “Only the Brave”, which Kosinski also directed. Gray is listed as an unredited “writing consultant” at IMDB, and is also invoiced as a singer’s author’s assistant at “The International.”
Singer was appointed by “Top Gun: Maverick” Military Advisor, former Navy’s hunting pilot JJ “Yank” Cummings, during an interview 2022 with GQ. “During the first few days it was me, Eric and Shaun. We spent five days straight in a hotel room in San Diego by going through the script line by line,” Cummings said at that time. “About a month later, Eric, Shaun and I did five days at Eric’s Santa Monica office and Joe dropped in the last two days to review our work. So yes, we logged a lot of time together.”
A Third “Top Gun” movie is now in the worksLike the “Maverick” actor Glen Powell teased.
