Posted on February 9, 2021 at 10:00 AM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek

Good news: Paramount Pictures may not be remaking its adaptation of Truman Capote’s novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

Bad news: we might get a TV series based on it instead.

The Hollywood Reporter provides an in-depth look at a legal battle taking place between Paramount and Alan Schwartz, a trustee of the Truman Capote Literary Trust.

Schwartz has received several seven-figure deals for a TV adaptation of the novella and thus needs a court to support his claim that Paramount missed its window under a 1991 agreement to make another movie.

Paramount, naturally, disputes this interpretation; it’s looking to send the case to federal court as a question of copyright law interpretation.

For more legalese, including copies of the latest court papers, head to The Hollywood Reporter.

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Tagged As: Lawsuit, Movie adaptation, TV adaptation

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I think you have the news all wrong. The 1961 Blake Edward's version of "Breakfast at Tyfanny's" was simply awful, compared to the hard-croe grit of the novel. I know Truman Capote collaborated on the screenplay, but I have to imagine it was just for the money. I am glad a TV mini-series is being considered, because with cable, you can do much more justice to a novel, than a film can. I mean a film-version by David O. Russell, Adam McKay, or Baz Luhrman might be very, very, cool. Whatever, the film desparately needs a do-over, becasue despite what a sweetheart Aubrey Hepburn was, the film was embarassingly bad.
Theo J van Joolen | 8/13/24 at 7:00 PM
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