Adam Sandler Sued For Copyright Infringement Over "Zohan"

[JamesG]

Sandler Sued For Copyright Infringement
24 February 2009 8:10 AM, PST


Actor Adam Sandler has been sued by a comic book author who's accused the star of stealing the idea for his 2008 movie You Don't Mess With The Zohan.

Author Robert Cabell filed a copyright infringement suit against Sandler and bosses at Happy Madison Productions, Sony and Columbia Pictures on Monday in Manhattan Federal court in New York.

Cabell claims the idea for Sandler's Zohan character, an Israeli special forces officer who fakes his death and becomes a hair dresser, was taken from his comic book series Hair-Raising Adventures of Jayms Blonde, which chronicles the main character wielding a blow dryer against corporate bad guys.

Pitching the Blonde movie on his website, Cabell writes: "He's gorgeous, he's gay, he makes bad guys pay."

According to the New York Daily News, Cabell says he brought the idea of taking his Blonde comic book character to the big screen when he pitched it to executives at Columbia in the autumn of 2007.

Cabell claims Sandler began filming the movie in Los Angeles close to the time he pitched the film, five years after he published the first books in the series.

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