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So, this Frankie Hopkins thing continues - a little bit on the backstory, Frankie Hopkins (google him) is a notorious film and screenplay thief, along with promoting a fake comedy tour (yes, he thinks he's a stand-up comic, too). He's, on numerous occasions, claimed he's performing at certain FAMOUS comedy clubs and yet, nobody has heard of him or ever seen him on stage.
Well, this dude stole "Morphine", is trying to get funding for it (he also reportedly took a passage from a short film also posted on Simply Scripts and passed it off as his own on Reddit). He tried pulling the opposite and is accusing me of stealing HIS screenplay.
I had a spat with him on Twitter and he claims that his lawyers have been in contact with me and that I am ignoring court orders lol. Nope. Haven't heard from anyone but him. So, he lied about that.
It's kind of a joke at this point... I told him FROM THE START that I no longer control the rights of the script as it has been under option with Pathfinder Pictures since 2013 (a few months after I wrote it). It is STILL under contract. I've explained this to him IN WRITING numerous times.
So, now, apparently he has a podcast and he decided to call me out by name (starting at the 19:11 mark). He claims that I am CURRENTLY trying to sell it and that he contacted a production company out of "New York or London" -- wouldn't the accent give that away? What an idiot. And he says that he made the company aware that the script was stolen by me and now they won't touch the script.
So, yeah, he lied about that, too. The company is based out of LA. And I told him REPEATEDLY that the script is controlled by Pathfinder Pictures and even gave him the contact info. They have not heard from him.
So, Frankie Hopkins said that he apparently never heard of Simply Scripts before his "producer" got a link to Morphine. Because of the easy access to the script, of course he would have access to steal it. He still can't explain how I would steal it from him, though (yes, he tried pulling the switch-a-roo and saying I stole Morphine from him).
Anyway, he claims he never heard of Simply Scripts. Yet, here is a link to a very crappy short he posted in 2010. Poorly written, poorly executed. And you know what? He probably stole that, too. http://www.simplyscripts.net/cgi-bin/Blah/Blah.pl?m-1289524417/
Beware, he lurks this site. I highly recommend registering with Library of Congress AND WGA. This dumbass continues to text me about how I stole "his" script and continues to post about me on sites (of course, HIS sites - the only people who go to his sites are people he stole from in the past). He claims he has a copyright from 2011 (which is hilarious because it's VERY easy to check) and has posted publicly about how I'm ignoring court orders from his "lawyers" -- lawyers that don't exist. Lawyers I've never heard from.
But even with a copyright, even THAT won't stop him from taking your shit and passing it off as his own. People like him are fucking it up for everyone else who want to workshop screenplays on public sites such as Simply Scripts. Be careful. Be very careful.