This franchise Victor helped create made hundreds of millions of $$$.”
Congress added this provision to allow creators (writers, songwriters, etc.) who sold their rights cheap to have a second chance. In the case of Victor Miller, he was originally paid about $9,500 for the original Friday the 13th script, which turned into 12 movies, a very successful video game and lots of Jason Voorhees merchandise. “ The Copyright Act includes a provision that states that an author can terminate any transfer he or she has made after 35 years. “ I’ve seen a lot of people dragging Victor online as if this is his fault.
In a series of tweets today, Zerner broke down the messy legal battle. Why Larry Zerner, you ask? Well, as it turns out, Zerner is now an entertainment lawyer! This has made the developing story a tough one for us to cover, because what the hell do we know? Thankfully, Friday the 13th: Part III star Larry “Shelly” Zerner, whose character recently was added as a playable survivor in Friday the 13th: The Game, is here to make sense of the whole thing for us. Victor Miller lawsuit for a while now, but the reality is that none of us are legal experts. We’ve been writing about the Sean Cunningham vs. The case made headlines again this week, however, when a new target found itself in the lawsuit’s cross-hairs: sadly, all future DLC content for Friday the 13th: The Game has been suspended. against Victor Miller, writer of the original film. It’s been no secret for quite some time that the biggest issue holding up the Friday the 13th franchise is a pending lawsuit filed by director Sean Cunningham and his Horror Inc.
For starters, put down the pitchforks and take it easy on Victor Miller.