{"id":271488,"date":"2010-02-03T13:58:45","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=91700"},"modified":"2010-02-03T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T18:58:45","slug":"%e2%80%9cmacgyver%e2%80%9d-creator-threatens-to-sue-over-%e2%80%9cmacgruber%e2%80%9d-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/271488","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMacGyver\u201d Creator Threatens To Sue Over \u201cMacGruber\u201d Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The man who created the ’80s small screen hit MacGyver<\/em> is threatening legal action in a bid to block the release of McGruber<\/em>, an upcoming comedy based on Saturday Night Live’s<\/em> long-running spoof of the original series. An explosive battle has broken out between Lee Zlotoff — who created the pop-iconic ABC series about a secret agent with the ability to escape any jam — and the producers of the parody headed to the big screen.<\/p>\n

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Starring Will Forte and Val Kilmer, MacGruber<\/em> is set to hit theaters in April, but Zlotoff insists the parody breaches copyright laws and movie rights he retains over the show he created, The Hollywood Reporter<\/a><\/em> said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Zlotoff’s attorney, Paul Mayersohn, has presented Relativity Media, the company behind the new comedy,
\nwith a cease-and-desist letter prohibiting MacGruber’s release.<\/p>\n

“We feel they’re infringing our rights,”<\/em> Mayersohn told the website.<\/p>\n

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The man who created the ’80s small screen hit MacGyver is threatening legal action in a bid to block the release of McGruber, an upcoming comedy based on Saturday Night Live’s long-running spoof of the original series. An explosive battle has broken out between Lee Zlotoff — who created the pop-iconic ABC series about a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}