A federal court judge found that the hit series and 2015 film 'Eden' aren't substantially similar outside of tropes common to most survival thrillers.
Courtney Eaton as Antler Queen Teen Lottie back in season one's"Doomcoming" episode of 'Yellowjackets.' Both follow a soccer team whose members start to exhibit cult-like behavior and contemplate cannibalism after crash landing in a remote location.
U.S. District Judge Dean Pregerson on Friday dismissed the lawsuit, finding that the plots, characters, themes and settings of the two works aren’t similar enough to constitute copyright infringement.premiered in 2021 to critical acclaim. Its second season opener became the studio’s most streamed debut ever, drawing roughly 2 million viewers across all platforms. The third season as a whole was the most watched so far for the series, with its finale drawing in 3 million watchers in its first seven days.'Yellowjackets' Star Samantha Hanratty on Her Pilot Callback and Filming Iconic Pit Girl Scenes Alleged plot similarities between the movie and TV series were part of the court’s analysis, with Pregerson finding that present-day timeline inargued that the movie heavily alludes to cannibalism, the court said that the plot instead focuses on the characters’ debate over whether to withhold food from injured survivors. Across the two weeks the film takes place, the main character’s faction is successfully able to gather food without ever considering or resorting to cannibalism, the order stated. Other similarities, the court said, are common tropes found in several survival thrillers. It pointed to the death of a head coach and survival of his two children, attempts by survivors to escape isolation and the division of groups into rival factions. “There can be no serious dispute that escape attempts by shipwrecked or stranded survivors are prevalent throughout fiction and history, from Odysseus, Robinson Crusoe, and Gilligan to Shackleton and the Uruguayan rugby team,” Pregerson wrote. “Instances of competition, tribalism, and factionalism in disaster scenarios or in response to resource scarcity are nearly as commonplace, from ‘The Tempest’ to ‘Survivor’ to much of the post-apocalyptic genre, such as the ‘Mad Max’ films or any of a number of zombie stories, to, most archetypically, ‘Lord of the Flies.'” And since the two works share basic plot points, it’s natural for them to have identical tones, the court reasoned. It explained, “It is difficult to imagine how any serious drama involving a descent into ritualized cannibalism, and its aftereffects, could possibly exclude elements of solemnity and brooding contemplation.”are led by Slim — an adult, male, Black athlete who serves as the moral compass of the group — Jackie, the team captain in the TV series, is depicted as a “teenage, white, whiny, self-absorbed girl” who’s ultimately excluded by her peers.. “Moreover, the ‘desolate area’ setting highlighted by Plaintiff is a common element of survival stories, including historical events such as the travails of the Uruguayan rugby team in the Andes or the Donner Party in the Sierra Nevada,” Pregerson added.Over the past few years, creators and holders of copyrights have been growing bolder in bringing idea theft lawsuits. There’s been a push by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to curb the early dismissal of copyright infringement claims. In 2022, the federal appeals court. This followed the revival of a copyright lawsuit brought by writers Arthur Lee Alfred and Ezequiel Martinez Jr. alleging that. The court found in those two cases that they were prematurely dismissed since reasonable minds could differ on whether the works are substantially similar.. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services. // This site is protected by reCAPTCHA Enterprise and the GoogleThe Hollywood Reporter is a part of Penske Media Corporation. © 2025 The Hollywood Reporter, LLC. All Rights Reserved.
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