Michael Crichton Lawsuit Goes After ER-Inspired Series

Negotiations broke down between Warner Bros. and Michael Crichton’s property for the sequel to ER, and so they seemingly opted to go on pursuing the thought. Nevertheless, now Warner Bros. is seeking to launch The Pitt, a medical drama set in Pittsburgh specializing in medical personnel juggling their careers together with their private lives. Past the same ideas, the Crichton property says Warner Bros. has basically taken every little thing that was deliberate for the ER sequel and grafted it onto The Pitt with solely the brand new identify.

The swimsuit from Michael Crichton’s property says, in keeping with a Deadline investigation, that “The Pitt is ER. It’s not like ER, it’s not sort of ER, it’s not type of ER. It’s ER full with the identical govt producer, author, star, manufacturing corporations, studio and community because the deliberate ER reboot.”