The owner of the literary rights to author William Faulkner's work has filed suit against Sony Pictures Classics, claiming that the 2011 Woody Allen film "Midnight in Paris" unlawfully used a quote from one of Faulkner's books.
In the suit, filed in U.S. District Court in Mississippi on Thursday, Faulkner Literary Rights, LLC says that Gil Pender, the screenwriter character played by Owen Wilson in the film, quoted a line from the Faulkner book "Requiem For a Nun" without permission.
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In the movie, Pender encounters personalities from the past such as Ernest Hemingway, F.