Roberto Clemente Family Members And Agent Sued Over Alleged Resale Of Hall Of Famer’s Life Story
deadline.comBaseball legend Roberto Clemente is at the center of a new lawsuit over the rights to his life story. More than 50 years after his death, the Pittsburgh Pirates icon generated renewed interest in the entertainment industry.
But a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court claims that two of Clemente’s family members and their agent, CMG, sold off rights to his story even though another production entity held an option to it.
Read the Roberto Clemente lawsuit. The plaintiff, Inside the Park LLC, contends that early last year, they were granted “an exclusive and irrevocable option to purchase the rights in and to the creation, production and distribution of a feature film based generally on the life of the late Roberto Clemente and the book Clemente – The True Legacy of an Undying Hero.” But after the principals of Inside the Park, producer Jonah Hirsch and actor/producer AJ Muñoz, received some publicity over the project, they discovered that their was an “issue” with the rights, according to the lawsuit.
In fact, the Clemente family had a previous option agreement with Legendary Pictures Productions that had not expired, according to the suit.
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