pzarquon
October 12th, 2004, 11:09 AM
Modified names spur 'Dazed' lawsuit (http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2004/10/12/TopStories/Modified.Names.Spur.dazed.Lawsuit-750142.shtml)
Three Huntsville residents who say they went to high school with Austin film director Richard Linklater accused him of using them as the basis for the girl-chasing, drug-taking characters in his film "Dazed and Confused" in a lawsuit filed last week, 11 years after the movie was released.
Just in time for the Nov. 2 release of the "Widescreen Flashback Edition (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00029RTAI/qid=1097599746/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3029622-7748806?v=glance&s=dvd)"!
It took them 11 years to get mad? Just how dazed were these guys? I think more than likely they thought it was pretty damn cool... until they got older, and the bills got bigger. The use of variations on their real names seems pretty boneheaded of Linklater, but I'm pretty sure the studio will find evidence that these guys benefitted from the association, weakening their case to nothingness.
Three Huntsville residents who say they went to high school with Austin film director Richard Linklater accused him of using them as the basis for the girl-chasing, drug-taking characters in his film "Dazed and Confused" in a lawsuit filed last week, 11 years after the movie was released.
Just in time for the Nov. 2 release of the "Widescreen Flashback Edition (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00029RTAI/qid=1097599746/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-3029622-7748806?v=glance&s=dvd)"!
It took them 11 years to get mad? Just how dazed were these guys? I think more than likely they thought it was pretty damn cool... until they got older, and the bills got bigger. The use of variations on their real names seems pretty boneheaded of Linklater, but I'm pretty sure the studio will find evidence that these guys benefitted from the association, weakening their case to nothingness.