As Yellowjackets followers eagerly await Season 3, Showtime has been hit with a lawsuit claiming the concept for the Emmy-nominated collection was stolen from the 2015 Shyam Madiraju-helmed survival thriller Eden.
Filed Nov. 14 in New York federal courtroom, the copyright infringement lawsuit additionally names Lionsgate and present creators Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, alleging that Yellowjackets “borrows closely from Eden to the purpose at which they’re considerably related.”
“Evaluating the Movie to the Present’s plots, setting, temper, tempo, tales, characters, sequence of occasions, themes, and scene/dialogue similarities, demonstrates that the 2 works, in most respects, are equivalent,” reads the criticism. “These considerably, strikingly related parts go away little doubt that the majority substantive parts of Yellowjackets are copied from Eden.”
The lawsuit — which cites frequent themes, plot factors, setting, characters, temper and pacing — seeks unspecified damages and an injunction barring Showtime and the opposite defendants from additional exploiting the collection.
Eden is described within the submitting as “a survival drama/thriller a couple of U.S. males’s soccer staff that crashes on a abandoned island after a World Cup match.”
Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson attend the twenty seventh Annual Critics Selection Awards on March 13, 2022 in Century Metropolis, California.
Gilbert Flores/Deadline
Yellowjackets follows a 1996 New Jersey highschool women’ soccer staff that crashes within the Canadian wilderness, the place they’re stranded for 19 months. The present alternates timelines to the current, the place the younger ladies’s grownup counterparts grapple with the darkish expertise they suffered years earlier than.
Lyle and Nickerson have beforehand famous that the 1972 Andes flight catastrophe, which led to members of a rugby staff resorting to cannibalism for survival, served as a “jumping-off level” for the collection.
“The true query is how did regular women get from level A to level B?” Lyle instructed Forbes. “How do they go from having the most common suburban teenage expertise to doing probably the most excessive factor a human being can do? The present is a metaphor for teenage hierarchy. These women had been already ravaging each other in 1996.”
Season 3 of Yellowjackets premieres on Showtime in 2025.
