Stephenie Meyer sued over Breaking Dawn
August 21, 2009 by Jane Boursaw
You’ve gotta wonder just how far you can stretch things in some of these lawsuits. Now a woman who wrote an obscure vampire book as a teenager is suing "Twilight" author Stephenie Meyer. She’s accusing her of stealing ideas for the fourth book in the series, “Breaking Dawn.” I mean, there’s only so many plotlines you can take with a vampire, right?
Jordan Scott’s lawsuit claims that while she was writing her book, “The Nocturne,” she posted passages online, which Meyer then stole for her own book.
I haven’t read "The Nocturne,” but apparently, the books have similar language, storylines, and characters. Scott’s lawsuit, for example, states that both books contain a wedding passage and a post-wedding scene of sex on a beach. Ok, so … that particular storyline is probably in thousands of books – and probably even a few other vampire books.
Hachette Book Group, publisher of the “Twilight” series, says the "alleged similarities" are "wholly lacking in substance," and that Meyer based "Breaking Dawn" on an earlier, unpublished sequel to "Twilight" that she wrote.
"The Nocturne," which Scott started writing at age 15 in 2003, had an initial printing of 5,000 books and is about to go into a second printing, according to her lawsuit.
What do you think? Any basis for a lawsuit here?
Image: Bauer-Griffin; Source: The Hollywood Reporter
