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<b><i>Online Extra:</b></i> Suit Against Hollywood Producers by 'Lost Boys' Clears Hurdle
A suit against Hollywood writers and producers by 54 refugees who became known as 'the Lost Boys' after they fled brutal persecution in Sudan has cleared an initial legal hurdle, a federal judge in Atlanta has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May on March 22 rejected motions to dismiss the case by screenwriters and producers of the 2014 film 'The Good Lie.' The film, starring Reese Witherspoon and directed by Philippe Falardo, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The plaintiffs are 54 Sudanese refugees who secured asylum in the United States because they faced slaughter in Sudan for their Christian beliefs, and a charitable foundation they created to benefit fellow refugees. They claimed in a suit filed last year that screenwriter Margaret Nagle, Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment and other production companies based the screenplay of 'The Good Lie' on lengthy interviews that the refugees gave to Nagle and the late Robert 'Bobby' Newmyer of Outlaw Productions in 2003 ' with the understanding that the refugees would share in the film's profits and that producers would raise money for their charity.
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