Netflix and Adam McKay Win Dismissal of Second Copyright Suit Over 2021 Film ‘Don’t Look Up’

Netflix and Adam McKay are two-for-two in defeating copyright lawsuits from self-published authors over the 2021 film “Don’t Look Up.”

Judge Gregory Presnell dismissed a lawsuit on Tuesday from Darren Hunter, of Harleysville, Pa., who claimed that the film was based on his novel, “The Million Day Forecast.”

The judge ruled that the novel is “an entirely different work” from the movie, and that the alleged similarities constitute “broad uncopyrightable ideas that are typical of works that center around the Earth’s destruction.”

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