![]() “NBC’s Timeless follows a female history professor, a soldier and a scientist who are recruited by a mysterious government organization to travel through time to stop a villain from affecting past events.Įl Ministerio del Tiempo meanwhile chronicles (as the lawsuit cited by Deadline puts it) “the adventures of a three-person government team” - a female student, a Marine and a doctor - “traveling through time to thwart undesired changes to past events.” Their complaint revolves around the make-up of the show’s characters and plot line being extremely similar to theirs: This isn’t about the time travel concept alone. We have to infer that Onza didn’t succeed in winning their confidence.Įveryone, including Onza, knows there have been a plethora of time travel shows. Because if those execs like the concept, but they don’t believe in that writer’s ability to execute, they will absolutely turn around and do exactly what they did in this situation. ![]() When a writer gets that big meeting, his or her job is to be immaculately prepared, engaging, and easy to work with, but more than that they provide a vision that both seems salable and gets the studio execs excited on a creative level, and they must then convince those execs that no one else can possibly execute that vision the way that writer can. We don’t know why, but NBC clearly didn’t want to work with Onza, because if they concurred with his vision and found him amicable, they likely would have hired him either as showrunner or at least as a writer/producer. ![]() The only thing that can be protected under the law is the execution, the product itself.Īs a professional author and screenwriter myself, I’ll tell you the reality: Onza’s job was to convince NBC beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was the man they wanted to work with on this show, based on his pitch, his script, any other materials he may have provided, as well as his attitude. While it might be distasteful, the reality is that production companies and networks lift concepts all the time. Unfortunately just because the optics are bad doesn’t mean there’s any legal malfeasance. NBC and Sony do not comment on pending litigation. One month after that, it was announced that NBC was developing Time (as Timeless was originally titled) with Kripke and Ryan - at which time Sony, the suit claims, cut off its talks with Onza. Three months later, Sony proposed a deal to produce an American version of El Ministerio del Tiempo. Onza Entertainment, the producers of the Spanish format - which has been licensed to China, France, Italy, Portugal and other parts of Latin America - claim in the lawsuit that in April 2015 they met with and supplied a DVD copy of their series to a Gersh talent agency partner, who even suggested that Kripke and Bed Edlund would be a good fit to shepherd an American adaptation. El Ministerio del Tiempo meanwhile chronicles (as the lawsuit cited by Deadline puts it) “the adventures of a three-person government team” - a female student, a Marine and a doctor - “traveling through time to thwart undesired changes to past events.” NBC’s Timeless follows a female history professor, a soldier and a scientist who are recruited by a mysterious government organization to travel through time to stop a villain from affecting past events.
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