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The brothers who created Stranger Things and streaming giant Netflix have been sued for allegedly ripping the idea for the show from an unpublished screenplay.

Netflix and the creators of Stranger Things, Matt and Ross Duffer, are being sued by a company that says the idea for the hit show was stolen from a screenplay called Totem.A lawsuit filed by Irish Rover Entertainment on Wednesday (July 15) in California federal court claims that Stranger Things has copied a number of things from Totem, a screenplay written by Jeffrey Kennedy (via TheWrap).The suit alleges that the Netflix show lifted the “plot, sequence, characters, theme, dialogue, mood, and setting, as well as copyrighted concept art” from Totem.The idea for Totem came following the death of Kennedy’s childhood friend, Clint Osthimer, who suffered from epilepsy.“During their childhood together in rural Indiana,” the lawsuit reads,

The creators of “Stranger Things” are facing a plagiarism lawsuit.

STRANGER Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer and Netflix are being sued for allegedly ripping plot and characters from an unpublished screenplay. Production company Irish Rover Entertainment has claimed that the plot and characters of Stranger Things is a direct copy from its TV series project, Totem.  The screenplay Totem is written by Jeffrey Kennedy, who is responsible for the series' "plot, sequence, characters, theme, dialogue, mood, and setting, as well as copyrighted concept art".