Warner Bros. has produced three films that come from the lives of Ed and Lorraine Warren, The Conjuring, Annabelle, and the Conjuring 2.
When Lorraine Warren granted access to the Warrens’ case files for the purposes of making the movies, she allegedly violated the agreement as Brittle was actually the one with the legal rights to do so.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, this included a provision that the Warrens would not authorize any “competing work.”
In a massive complaint filed in Virginia federal court, Gerald Brittle claims that his original 1978 agreement with the Warrens for his book granted Brittle exclusive rights to make derivative works based on their lives as paranormal investigators.