Mobster’s Son Claims Warner Bros Stole His Script
The son of the late Sicilian mob boss Francesco “Ciccio” Gambino has sued Warner Bros claiming its 2014 movie “The Judge” is “eerily similar” to his screen treatment that he submitted to the studio six years prior.
From Courthouse.com:
Gambino also wrote a screenplay, "Father and Son" aka "The Lawyer."
"Father and Son" is a fictional account of a big city lawyer who is estranged from his father but reunites with him when his mother becomes terminally ill. Due to an accident, the lawyer's father is accused of murder, his son defends him in court, and they reconcile their differences, Gambino says in his summary of the screenplay.
Six of the "eerily similar" plot points are outlined in the lawsuit: a big-city lawyer, estranged from his father, reunited when the mother becomes terminally ill, after which the father is accused of murder, the son represents him, and they become reconciled.
Gambino's father allegedly inspired Benito Mussolini's "war on the Mafia" when the dictator visited him in Sicily.
- Jagajeet Chiba, Gambling911.com
