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Snatch <\/em>creator Guy Ritchie has responded to a lawsuit claiming he copied ideas for The Gentlemen <\/em>from a friend and writer. <\/p>\n

According to Variety, Ritchie submitted a filing to London’s High Court earlier this week, which denied that the idea for a long-gestating sequel to another of his movies, RocknRolla,<\/em> was based on friend Mickey de Hara’s life or that he had hired him to write the sequel. Ritchie’s defense filing was delayed following a court order to give the parties time to negotiate and settle out of court.<\/p>\n

De Hara’s claim, which emerged several months ago, said Ritchie used his script for the sequel along with plot points about his life and that this eventually had an influence on The Gentlemen, <\/em>which copies the characters and specific plot points that were part of the planned sequel. His lawsuit had focused on overlaps in plot points. <\/p>\n

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Ritchie’s claim said that he paid de Hara £25,000 ($31,900) in 2006 to provide “anecdotes” and “act as a sounding board” while he was writing the RocknRolla <\/em>sequel, but he stressed that the sequel was never made as he believed the era of gangster films was over. He also said he had discussed turning RocknRolla <\/em>into a trilogy but never struck an agreement with de Hara or another writer, Martin Askew. <\/p>\n

Ritchie acknowledged he made “some use” of the RocknRolla<\/em> sequel’s screenplay while writing The Gentlemen<\/em> but denied de Hara’s claim that the latter was a “reproduction of a substantial part” of the former.<\/p>\n

Starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam and Jeremy Strong and taking a similar approach to Ritchie’s previous action-comedy movies, The Gentlemen<\/em> followed an American expat trying to sell off his highly profitable marijuana empire in London. RocknRolla <\/em>came out a decade prior and followed the travails of a mob boss.<\/p>\n

The case continues. Variety was first with the news.<\/p>\n

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