So, ripping off my script for "Resurgo" didn't work out so well did it?!

This movie was so terrible I didnt even know about it until a friend who was helping me write Resurgo told me about the lazarus effect release he had seen on netflix. I didnt even know this movie existed until a week ago. If the movie had been popular or included any of the good parts from resurgo, it would have been a major problem. It does however contain some scenes that are far too closely structured to scenes from Resurgo that are too identical for any of the lazarus writers to have not seen my script and taken them. These were things that had not been done with flatliners, pet cemitary or reanimator either. This kind of theft is akin to what that hack who wrote the hungar games did with battle royale. I've since forwarded the Resurgo script to Lionsgate legal with a request for their official assessment. This happens so often theses days that studios often just cut a check for intellectual property usage rather than getting into it with the media and courts. Hell, the move only made back 1/5th of it's intended earnings. They arent going to have much in the way for compensation as is.

I'll take your word on the movie profits. Even though I thought the movie was pretty bad overall, I'm glad it did well. The cast were all very engaged and doing their best with what was a terrible script. Olivia Wilde is probably the reason the movie did well IMO. She's got some acting chops and has either been lucky or skillful in building her profile with some great movies. She was unforgettable in Tron. So much so I find it difficult to let her be other people in movies, I've type casted her in my mind if you like lol

For me at least, the only thing that got me to give the movie a go was knowing she was in it.

This guy and his script, there's really nothing original at all in the movie, whoever was putting it all together just didn't have the skills to run with the big ideas. The movie could have been so much better but I suppose you could say that of any movie. The point though, I don't think you could claim this movie as your own. There are so many similar scripts and really there isn't much depth here to claim anything. It's just a few very generic ideas thrown together with a lot of BOO jump scares.

I have a project that was exactly like this film too, but you know it is hard to prove. In my story it is an animated talking cat that I had planned Mark Wahlberg to voice but the rest of it is live action. I called it Wild Oblivion and the filmmakers cast Olivia Wilde just to subtly mess with me. And then how many guys named Mark are in Hollywood. Mark Duplass, Mark Ruffalo, Mark Harmon. Not a lot so coincidence that Duplass is in this? Maybe not as an animated cat, but pretty close. The cat dies and comes back to life and goes around asking everyone if he was in heaven or hell as he tells stories about what happened. Spoiler alert= at the end someone tells the c
at, of course it was heaven. How would you have come back as a human if not?
Do you think I should sue the filmmakers?

I wrote a script about a guy who wrote a script about a crappy resurrection idea and his idea is stolen by the makers of an even crappier movie.
Who should I sue?