Back in January Issa Rae's new movie, "One of Them Days," starring KeKe Palmer and SZA debuted to rave reviews [click here if you missed that].
Now Issa is being accused of stealing the script...
From AllHipHop
Writers Joshua Isaacson, Shon Oku and Tyrone Perry claim they penned a script back in 2020 called One of Those Days and registered the copyright. Fast forward to 2025, and they say Rae’s team dropped a flick with a nearly identical title and a storyline that hits way too close to home.
The trio filed their lawsuit on July 30, naming Issa Rae’s company Color Creative, Sony Pictures, TriStar and screenwriter Syreeta Singleton. They’re accusing them of copyright infringement, idea theft, and conversion—basically saying Rae and crew jacked their story and ran with it like it was theirs.
According to court docs, the writers say they shared their screenplay with producer Danny Hamouie in late 2023, the first time anyone outside of the trio had ever seen the script.
They never heard back from Hamouie, who is not named in the lawsuit.
Next, they handed it over to Roman Arabia and his partner Xavier Charles, who own a company called Green Eggs Go H.A.M. (GEG), in April 2024, hoping to secure some funding.
GEG passed on the project, but the twist? Charles used to work on Rae’s show Insecure. Weeks after that rejection, news broke that Issa Rae was gearing up to produce a film called One of Them Days.
4 comments:
That’s messed up. She’s got the bag but her writers probably read it and became “ inspired” and pitched to her
Thieving Hollyweird thieves. They all do it and it's sad because she started out as an independent, got indoctrinated and became one of them.
What's original these days? SiNNERS was. LOLO
If that's the case then they both stole the idea from Friday
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