LOS ANGELES — Warner Brothers responded harshly on Thursday to a legal complaint over the authorship of its Clint Eastwood baseball movie, “Trouble With the Curve.” But its opponents did not back down.
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Amy Adams and Clint Eastwood in the 2012 movie, “Trouble With the Curve.” The film’s authorship has been challenged.
In an unusually sharp response to a lawsuit filed here last week, the studio publicly called the accusations of script theft “reckless and false.”
The studio and several of its business partners also said they had overwhelming evidence that the original script was created more than 15 years ago, without foul play, by its credited author, a virtually unknown screenwriter named Randy Brown. But Gerard P. Fox, a lawyer for a plaintiff, instantly dismissed the supposed evidence as “manufactured.”
Warner’s response was in part an attempt — probably futile — to stem Hollywood table talk and media fascination with a suit that charged wrongdoing by both the studio and Mr. Eastwood’s Malpaso Productions, though Mr. Eastwood was not personally included among more than a dozen named defendants.
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