Horror movie "Friday the 13th" to discontinue the game element's new element production due to contention dispute

game"Friday the 13th: The Game"On the official website, it was announced that the creation of new content such as new game modes, characters, maps was canceled. This is the effect of the trial over the ownership of the movie "Friday the 13th" that became the base of the game, except that support except bug fixes and maintenance will not be done until the judgment comes out.

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"Friday the 13th: The Game" is a game created with successful Kickstarter project. The target amount was quite expensive as 700 thousand dollars (about 77 million yen), but collected 820 3704 dollars (about 91 million yen) in a month from October 14, 2015 to November 14 .

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Even if you collect money with Kickstarter, you can not create and announce a game without permission from the copyright owner of the original movie, but GunMedia, which develops games, is directed by Sean S. Cunningham, We have cooperated with Harry Manfredini and others who are in charge of music.

After the project was established, game production proceeded smoothly, and in May 2017 it was released for PC · PS 4 · Xbox One. Although the sound and subtitles of the game are only English,PC version delivered by SteamSince the interface corresponds to Japanese, there may be some people who have already played.

However, it was raised in 2016 of the previous year when the game was released, in charge of the script in the first movie released in 1980Victor MillerIt is a problem of "ownership"

Mr. Miller entrusted the rights of the work to the studio so far. However, in the United States, when the Copyright Law was amended in 1976, the end of granting rights from the author was able to be done after 35 years from the publication of the workAs stipulated in Article 203So in July 2018 we issued a statement that we wanted to execute this "grant ended" and regain rights.

On the studio side who received this news from Mr. Miller in June 2016, Mr. Miller pointed out that he had no experience of writing horror work before "Friday the 13th", the script is not Mr. Miller's own work, Claiming that he was hired by a studio under the guidance of director Cunningham. Both Mr. Miller and the studio side are seeking a summary judgment that omits the formal hearing and makes a judgment.

Mr. Miller filed an appeal before the release of Kickstarter's project until "Friday the 13th: The Game" was released, it was the worst timing seen from the game side. According to the release of GunMedia, since it is called "new content" that will be discontinued, there is no effect on released games themselves, but "Friday the 13th" scheduled to be produced by director Cunningham The influence on the new work seems to be unavoidable.

By the way, Japanese version for PS4 of "Friday the 13th: The Game" will be released on Friday, July 13, 2018.

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