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Alexander Payne and 'The Holdovers' screenwriter David Hemingson accused of plagiarism
EXCLUSIVE: Alexander Payne has criticized a report from earlier this year that the script for his five-time Oscar-nominated film The Holdovers, which he directed from a script by David Hemingson, was plagiarized.
“It was the dumbest thing that ever happened,” Payne told us at the Sarajevo Film Festival when asked about the Variety report from earlier this year, which came on the eve of the Oscars.
In the piece, Luca screenwriter Simon Stephenson accused The Holdovers script of plagiarizing his 2013 Black List screenplay Frisco.
