Sci-Fi Author Harlan Ellison Claims 'In Time' is Ripping Him Off, Sues to prevent The Film's Release

More not so good news for Justin Timberlake: His new movie, 'In Time,' just been hit having a suit that seeks to prevent its March. 28 release. The script for that approaching sci-fi thriller -- that is occur the next where time generally is money -- is credited to director Andrew Niccol ('Gattaca'), but legendary sci-fi author Harlan Ellison states the brand new film is ripping off an extremely similar prize-winning short story he authored in 1965. Based on the suit, 'In Time,' bears numerous commonalities to Ellison's Hugo and Nebula-award-winning story, 'Repent, Harlequin! Stated The Ticktockman.' Both of them are occur a "dystopian corporate future by which everybody is allocated a quantity of your time to resideInch and have a government authority referred to as a "Timekeeper" that tracks the precise period of time each individual leaves. Ellison states the commonalities are "apparent" which critic Richard Roeper, who's already seen the film, concurs with him. He's demanding all profits from 'In Time' -- which will not considerably if he effectively stops the discharge. Ellison's many Hollywood credits range from the 'Star Trek' episode "The Town about the Fringe of Forever" and also the 1969 publish-apocalyptic story 'A Boy and the Dog,' that was converted into a film starring Don Manley. But not every one of individuals projects have gone well: In 1977, he was hired to evolve fellow sci-fi author Isaac Asimov's 'I, Robot' right into a screeplay, but was dropped in the project after accusing a Warner Bros. executive of getting the "intellectual capacity of the artichoke." The film was eventually produced in 2004, without Ellison's participation. A suit over James Cameron's 'The Terminator,' which alleged it took it's origin from his 'Demon Having a Glass Hand' episode of 'The Outer Limits' was settled having a screen credit "acknowledging" Ellison in the finish from the film. Cameron wasn't happy about this, calling Ellison "a parasite who are able to hug my ass." [via THR, Wikipedia] image courtesy twentieth century Fox