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King Nine to Firefly wrote:Wolverine?
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Plaintiffs are informed and believe and based thereon allege that on or around June 13, 2008, the major motion picture The Incredible Hulk was released, based on the Kirby Works. On or about May 1, 2009, the major motion picture X- Men Origins: Wolverine was released, based on the Kirby Works (collectively, The Incredible Hulk and X-Men Origins: Wolverine are referred to as the “Kirby Films”).
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Where does the line get drawn as far as crediting creators if a film includes some minor characters created by myriad writers/artists?
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Fin Fang Foom wrote:Where does the line get drawn as far as crediting creators if a film includes some minor characters created by myriad writers/artists? Legally, the line is drawn wherever the contract says so! Absent that, it probably down to the goodwill of the people involved in producing the film, I suppose. The closest precedent to a situation like that I can think of would be something like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, or The Puppetoon Movie, which featured lots of different characters -- even in brief cameo appearances! -- that all had to be properly attributed to different (corporate) owners.
Mar 15 10 9:01 PM
Vicious49 wrote:I'm trying to figure out why anything involving Spidey would be at stake since that was the one title he didn't work on.
Mar 15 10 9:08 PM
DanaMania wrote:There's lots written about that. Here's an interesting piece: http://io9.com/5363689/who-created-spider+man
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Wolverine did feature;
Professor X, The Blob and Scott Summers...
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Stan Lee says, "All the concepts were mine" (Village Voice, Vol.32 #49, Dec. 1987). It is his contention that he singly came up with the idea, produced a script, offered it to Jack Kirby for illustration, and when he didn't like the look of Kirby's rendition, he then offered it to Steve Ditko. Can he be believed? Not really. Stan would go so far (or stoop so low!) as to claim that a minor character named The Living Eraser from Tales to Astonish #49 was his creation This character, had the dubious distinction of being able to wave people out of existence with a swipe of his hand. "I got a big kick out of it when I dreamed up that idea," Lee is quoted. (Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, pg. 97). He further embellished this tale by stating how hard it was to come up with an explanation for this power. The fact is, this ignoble power and explanation, first appear in a Jack Kirby story from Black Cat Mystic #59 (Harvey Publications, Sept. 1957). If Lee will take credit for an obvious minor Kirby concept, which nobody cares about, then he certainly would take credit for another's creation that has become the company's cash cow.
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ReviveTheRedRaven wrote: Yup, that Living Eraser example is a pretty poor attempt at trying to smear Stan Lee's reputation.Ah, the more vicious Kirbyites will do that sort of thing. The rational ones are more honest. I can't think of a single Kirby Koncept that wasn't done by someone else somewhere before.
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