The producer of the movie "The Bravest" responded to the lawsuit: No notice from the court was received

Previous information on the Haidian Court website showed that because Li believed that the movie "The Bravest" plagiarized the copyrighted work "Flamingo" in terms of story background, character settings, character relationships, main plot settings, and ending arrangements, he sued eight companies, including China Film Distribution Co., Ltd., Bona Film Group Co., Ltd., Asia Pacific Chinese Film (Beijing) Co., Ltd., Alibaba Pictures (Beijing) Co., Ltd., and Wanda Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., for copyright infringement. The Haidian Court accepted the case.

Today (November 11), Bona Film Group, the producer of the film "The Bravest", issued a statement on Weibo regarding the lawsuit for plagiarism, saying that the script was adapted from the reportage "The Deepest Water is Tears" published by Baoerji Yuanye in 2013, and that the adaptation and filming rights were legally authorized. The company and related producers own all copyrights of the work. As of the date of the statement, the company has not received any notice from the court regarding the court filing.

statement:

The movie "Heroes of Fire" (hereinafter referred to as "the movie") is a film jointly produced by our company and other relevant producers. It is adapted from the true heroic deeds of firefighters who risked their lives to put out the fire after the oil pipeline in Dalian Free Trade Zone exploded on July 16, 2010. The movie was released nationwide on August 1, 2019 and received wide acclaim.

The script of the film was adapted from the reportage "The Deepest Water is Tears" published by Baoerji Yuanye in March 2013, and the film adaptation and filming rights of the author were authorized on December 28, 2016; on September 29, 2017, a screenwriter contract was signed with Yu Yonggan (formerly known as Yu Yanlin), and the contract stipulated that the screenwriter would assume the copyright guarantee obligation of the film script. The film script development was launched in July 2017, the film script creation was completed in January 2018, the filming began in October 2018, and it was submitted to the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television for review in April 2019.

Recently, the news that the film's copyright infringement case has been filed in the Haidian District Court of Beijing has been circulated on the Internet. As of the date of this statement, our company has not received any notice from the court.

Our company and other relevant producers own all the copyrights of this film, and reserve the right to pursue legal liability for any illegal and criminal acts involving infringement, plagiarism and dissemination of false reports involving this film.

This is to declare!

November 11, 2019