Cowboys & Aliens Sparks Texas Suit

The author from the 1995 comic story concentrating on the same title since the movie Cowboys & Aliens has punished producers in the movie together with a comics author, alleging they stole his idea. Austin-based author Steven John Busti filed the suit in federal court in Texas. The suit namedDreamWorks Art galleries, Universal Pictures and comic entrepreneur Scott Mitchell Rosenberg and the organization Platinum Art galleries as accused. Busti claims he emerged while using idea for cowboys fighting aliens in 1994 and launched an account one year afterwards titled “Cowboys & Aliens” in the comic referred to as “Bizarre Fantasy.” The suit also claims that in 1994 the publicationComic Shop News went a component on his Cowboys & Aliens idea inside the same issue that went an account on Rosenberg. Rosenberg’s LA-based Platinum Art galleries in 2006 launched the graphic novel series Cowboys & Aliens — which Busti asserted inside the suit has striking parallels to his work.Universal and DreamWorks bought movie rights from Platinum. Busti’s claim is an additional black markagainst the film that the art galleries placed high hopes together with a sizable budget. A substantial disappointment financially,Cowboys & Aliens made about $175 million worldwide, barely greater than it cost.