Paramount Pictures has been hit with a lawsuit over "Top Gun: Maverick."

The widow and son of Ehud Yonay, whose 1983 article in California Magazine titled, "Top Guns," about fighter pilots and the Navy's elite Top Gun program - effectively inspiring the first movie, is suing the studio in California federal court and claiming copyright infringement.

The lawsuit claims the original film credited the story but that the studio did not have the right to make this year's blockbuster, which they say is a derivative work of the original article.

The West Online's Kate Phillips has the details.

Paramount Pictures has been hit with a lawsuit over "Top Gun: Maverick."
The widow and son of Ehud Yonay, whose 1983 article in California Magazine titled, "Top Guns," about fighter pilots and the Navy's elite Top Gun program - effectively inspiring the first movie, is suing the studio in California federal court and claiming copyright infringement.
The lawsuit claims the original film credited the story but that the studio did not have the right to make this year's blockbuster, which they say is a derivative work of the original article.
The West Online's Kate Phillips has the details.

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