Justin Baldoni’s outdated scathing allegations resurfaces
Justin Baldoni beforehand confronted a lawsuit alleging he stole the script for his 2019 directorial debut, 5 Ft Aside.
Screenwriter Travis Flores claimed Baldoni took his romance script, Three Ft Distance, which was impressed by Flores’ personal life with cystic fibrosis.
Flores employed lawyer Bryan Freedman, who’s now defending Baldoni in a separate lawsuit filed by Blake Energetic.
In keeping with the lawsuit, Flores claims Baldoni stole his film concept, Three Ft Distance, which was impressed by Flores’ personal life with cystic fibrosis.
Flores alleges that after sharing his script with a mutual contact in 2015, Baldoni learn it and shortly started engaged on an analogous romance movie, 5 Ft Aside, together with his manufacturing agency, Wayfarer Leisure, that includes youngsters with cystic fibrosis.
The lawsuit claims {that a} 12 months later, Baldoni invited Flores to take part in his produced and introduced documentary collection, My Final Days, which chronicled the lives of a number of younger people going through terminal illness.
Flores finally made an look within the 2016 documentary. Flores handed away in 2024 on the age of 33 from problems associated to the situation.
Nevertheless, Flores claimed within the paperwork that there have been extra parallels exterior the title 5 Ft Aside and the general plot.
Moreover, he charged that Baldoni had plagiarised extra particular plot factors, characters, and concepts from his script, together with the truth that each protagonists had deceased sisters and that each works emphasise “living in the here and now.”
“The similarities between the two works extend far beyond the limited examples referenced above,” learn the 2021 submitting.
“Some of the similarities are seemingly small, like the wardrobe choice of showing the main character for the first time wearing a v-neck t-shirt. Others are more significant to the overall development of the works.”
For the reason that lawsuit’s submitting, Justin hasn’t spoken out publicly about Flores’ accusations.