"Hurt Locker" producers sued days before Oscars

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Source: Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – An Army sergeant on Tuesday sued the makers of Oscar-nominated film "The Hurt Locker" five days before the Academy Awards, claiming the central character in the film is based on him.

Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver believes screenwriter Mark Boal based "virtually all of the situations" in the film on events involving him and claims he coined the phrase "the hurt locker," according to a statement from lawyer Geoffrey Fieger in Southland, Michigan, who is representing Sarver.

A news conference is planned for Wednesday at Fieger's offices, at which time more details are expected on what Sarver's lawyers said was a "multimillion dollar suit."

The film's distributor, Summit Entertainment, issued its own statement on Tuesday reiterating the movie's claim that it is a "fictional account" about soldiers in the battlefield.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100303/en_nm/us_hurtlocker_lawsuit

[xultar]

1. The producer of the film is banned from the oscars too.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Why?

[devilgrrl]

3. He was sending spam emails trying to get academy members to vote for his film.

eom

[Swede]

4. My brother in the Canadian Army used the phrase decades ago.

So strike one.

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. "He'd make preposterous claims, like he'd invented the question mark."

:rofl:

[bullwinkle428]

7. Funniest scene in "Austin Powers : International Man of Mystery"!

:thumbsup:

[vadawg]

11. yup ive heard that phrase before, way back in the 80's and 90's

doubt this guy will prevail...

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Didn't Feiger represent Kevorkian, and the guy who killed the other dude over the talk show crush

Gets around in Michigan, dang.

[jonnyblitz]

8. Feiger represented the murder victim's family against the

Jenny Jones Show in that crush/murder incident.

[mainer]

9. Even if it is about his experiences, the reporter was there too

So it's about the reporter's experiences -- and he's the one who wrote the story.

[xsquid]

10. The phrase was used in the usn vietnam era at a minimum,

I know because I did 12 years, it's been around since long before that though. There are lockers for enerything on board ships so everything gets referred to as lockers. Hurt locker, whip ass locker, whine locker, pity locker, you get the idea.