The Netflix money cow “Squid Game” is a blatant ripoff of a film that was launched greater than a decade earlier in India … a minimum of in line with a brand new lawsuit.
Netflix is being sued by a person named Soham Shah, who claims he’s the creator of the 2009 Hindi-language Indian movie “Luck” … which he says served as a blueprint for the hit 2021 streaming sequence “Squid Game.”
In accordance with the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, the “Squid Game” franchise straight-up jacked the storyline from Shah’s film … as a result of “Luck” is a narrative a few group of determined, indebted individuals enticed to participate in a sequence of aggressive video games for the prospect to win massive sums of cash.
Shah says in “Luck,” it is solely after characters begin competing that they notice shedding any of the challenges means dying — and that the dying of a fellow participant additionally will increase the pot of cash out there to the remaining contestants.
Within the paperwork, Shah says his “Luck” story additionally options rich onlookers playing on the gamers and reveling within the high-stakes competitors … whereas the members themselves battle to remain alive, and grapple with their very own morality underneath excessive circumstances.
For anybody who has seen “Squid Game” … this sounds so much like the identical plot.
Factor is … Shah claims he wrote his story in or round 2006 … and he says in July 2009 the film model was launched worldwide in theaters in India, the UK, america and the UAE.
Shah says “Squid Game” author Hwang Dong-hyuk, who can be being sued, claimed to have first written his story in 2009 … the identical yr “Luck” was launched in theaters.
Shah claims Netflix had entry to seeing “Luck” on the time, because of its “considerable advertising and marketing” … so he thinks it is no shock they ended up producing “Squid Game” in 2018 or 2019.
Netflix, Shah claims, says the corporate’s market worth elevated by over $900 million on account of “Squid Game,” its most-watched present … and Shah’s going after the streaming big for a slice of the pie — and needs to dam Netflix from infringing his “Luck” copyright.
We reached out to Netflix … up to now no phrase again.
