Writer Sues Paramount Claiming ‘Top Gun’ Script Authorship (1)

A writer claiming to be the co-author of the “Top Gun: Maverick” screenplay sued Paramount Global seeking either ownership rights for his contributions to the script or a ruling that Paramount infringed his work.

Plaintiff Shaun Gray claimed he was the only one of several contributors who never signed a work-for-hire contract, according to the complaint filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. He said he individually wrote several “pivotal and impactful” scenes that appeared in the film after co-writer Eric Warren Singer, his cousin, approached him to help write the sequel to ...