《卢卡》编剧起诉导演佩恩：指奥斯卡提名片《留校联盟》抄袭其未拍剧本《Frisco》
据《好莱坞报道》（The Hollywood Reporter）10月28日报道，皮克斯动画《卢卡》（Luca）的故事编剧之一 Simon Stephenson 当天向加州联邦法院提起版权诉讼，指控导演亚历山大·佩恩（Alexander Payne）的奥斯卡提名影片《留校联盟》（The Holdovers）抄袭他未投拍的剧本《Frisco》，要求赔偿，并请求法院下令禁止该片继续被发行利用。
被告还包括《留校联盟》的署名编剧 David Hemingson、制片人 Mark Johnson，以及米拉麦克斯、焦点影业与环球家庭娱乐等公司。诉状称，佩恩曾在2013年与2019年两度读过《Frisco》并两度拒绝，2022年却动手拍出了这部电影：「剧本常被称为电影的蓝图——被告们正是用《Frisco》作蓝图，建起了他们的电影。」
诉状逐项比对两部作品：Stephenson 笔下的儿童医院变成了寄宿学校，愤世嫉俗的儿科医生变成愤世嫉俗的古典学教师，早慧的病人变成早慧的学生；两部作品共有46处情节一一对应，其中24处出现的顺序相同。诉状还举出一处细节：《留校联盟》2021年5月的剧本稿中，少年主角提到要去参加一场「医学会议」，而该片情节里根本没有医学会议——这一情节只属于《Frisco》；诉状称，这一行后来被删去，而周围的台词保留了下来，与「先抄袭、后掩盖」的模式吻合。
《Frisco》写于2012至2013年，讲一位面临离婚的儿科过敏医生，在一名身患绝症的15岁病人身上重新学到如何生活；该剧本2013年入选业内最受推崇的未投拍剧本榜单「黑名单」（Black List）第三名。Stephenson 本人曾当过儿科医生，参与过的作品还有《帕丁顿熊2》《旺卡》与《路卡》。据报道，各被告方面目前尚未就这起诉讼公开回应。
这不是双方第一次交锋。2024年奥斯卡颁奖礼前夕，Stephenson 曾就抄袭指控致信编剧工会（WGA）高层；工会表示此事不在其裁决范围，并建议他咨询律师。佩恩其后在萨拉热窝电影节上否认指控，称其为「世界上最蠢的事」。
'Luca' Writer Sues Alexander Payne, Claiming Oscar Nominee 'The Holdovers' Copied His Unproduced Script 'Frisco'
The Hollywood Reporter reported on October 28 that Simon Stephenson, who holds a story credit on Pixar's "Luca," filed a copyright infringement lawsuit in California federal court the same day, alleging that director Alexander Payne's Oscar-nominated film "The Holdovers" was built on his unproduced screenplay "Frisco." The suit seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring further exploitation of the movie.
Also named as defendants are "The Holdovers" screenwriter David Hemingson, producer Mark Johnson, and companies including Miramax, Focus Features and Universal Home Entertainment. The complaint says Payne read "Frisco" in 2013 and again in 2019 and passed on both occasions, but in 2022 finally made Stephenson's screenplay: "Screenplays are often called the blueprint for a film. The defendants built their film using Frisco as their blueprint."
According to the complaint, Payne transposed Stephenson's children's hospital into a boarding school, the cynical pediatrician into a cynical classics teacher, and the precocious patient into a precocious pupil. It identifies 46 incidents that correspond across the two works, 24 of them occurring in the same order. As one piece of evidence, the filing points to a May 2021 draft of "The Holdovers" in which the teenage lead mentions traveling "for a medical conference" — although no medical conference figures in the film — a detail the suit says belongs to "Frisco"'s plot and was later removed while the surrounding lines remained.
"Frisco," written in 2012–13, tells of a forty-something pediatric allergist facing divorce who learns lessons in living from a terminally ill 15-year-old patient; it placed third on the 2013 Black List of the industry's most-liked unproduced screenplays. Stephenson, a former pediatrician, also worked on "Paddington 2," "Wonka" and "Luca." The defendants have not publicly responded to the lawsuit, according to the reports.
The dispute is not new. In March 2024, on the eve of the Academy Awards — where "The Holdovers" competed including for Best Original Screenplay — Stephenson took his accusations to the Writers Guild of America, which said it could not adjudicate the matter and referred him to an attorney. Payne later denied the allegations at the Sarajevo Film Festival, calling the claim "the stupidest thing in the world."
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图片来源：图：《留校联盟》导演亚历山大·佩恩。照片：CC BY-SA 4.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: Alexander Payne, director of "The Holdovers." CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
