Variety is reporting that screenwriter Victor Dean is suing the production company Codeblack Enterprises, claiming that they had a hand in his original idea being stolen and turned into the movie we know as Get Hard.
The project did not move forward as a feature from there, but Dean claims the company gave Get Hard producer Adam McKay access to his treatment and also showed him Dean’s self-produced version of Prison 101 that was made as a four-episode web series.
He allegedly brought the idea to the Codeblack (a division of Lionsgate), and apparently went as far as to suggest that the project could star Kevin Hart and Will Ferrell.
Dean says that he originally wrote a treatment titled Prison 101 back in 2009, telling the story of “a securities broker who has to learn how to survive prison from a ‘streetwise individual.'”