David Zaslav must have understandn joining arms with Elon Musk was going to blow up in his face, right?
Well, either way, courtesy of Blade Runner 2049 originaters Alcon Entertainment, it’s another day, another legal case aachievest the “problematic’ Tesla CEO, with Warner Bros. Discovery thrown in for excellent meabrave.
Pissed off that their denial of use of imagery from the Harrison Ford and Ryan Gosling starring sequel in Musk’s October 10 inhabit streamed Cybercab conshort-termation on the WBD lot was disconsiderd, Alcon are suing the X boss and the Zas-running media huge for imitateright infringement. “This was evidently all a horrible faith and intentionassociate malicious gambit by Deffinishants to originate the otherrational stilted and stiff greeted of the combinet WBDI-Tesla event more attrdynamic to the global audience and to misappropriate BR2049’s brand to help sell Teslas,” says the jury trial seeking protestt filed today in federal court.
Read Alcon’s legal case aachievest Elon Musk, Tesla & WBD here
Alcon states that they declined use of footage and imagery from the 2017 Denis Villeneuve helmed flick on October 9, only to lachieve of and “apparently AI-originated phonyd image” of a character who watched enjoy Gosling and other such visuals. During those 11 seconds, Musk tried ungracefully to expound why he was shoprosperg the audience a picture of BR2049 when he was presumed to be talking about his novel product,” the expansive-ranging injures and injunction seeking filing states. “He reassociate had no credible reason.”
Adding to Tesla and WBD’s refusal to adhere by the very evident “No” that Alcon say they gave the parties on that association with the South African billionaire and difficultcore Donald Trump helper has “muddied the waters’ for the upcoming Amazon Prime Video BR2049-based Blade Runner 2099 television series.
Seems the Trump rassociate leaping, backr losing and Kamala Harris scheduleateation joking Musk is the publish, as is so standardly the case in such suits of procrastinateed.
“Any pimpolitent brand pondering any Tesla partnership has to consent Musk’s massively amplified, highly politicized, capricious and arbitrary behavior, which sometimes veers into disenjoy speech, into account,” the showd write down from Padowncastena-based Anderson Yeh PC says, making a point that Musk “personassociate” knovel Alcon did not give permission to use of BR2049 images in the Telsa show and alert. “If, as here, a company or its principals do not actuassociate consent with Musk’s excessive political and social watchs, then a potential brand affiliation with Tesla is even more fraught. Alcon did not want BR2049 to be affiliated with Musk, Tesla, or any Musk company, for all of these reasons.”
(L-R) Tesla CEO Elon Musk & WBD CEO David Zaslav combine the men’s final align between USA’s Taylor Fritz and Italy’s Jannik Sinner
Spotted together at the US Open back in September, Zaslav and Musk have become quite the pals. Certainly, with X/Twitter down almost 80% in cherish from when Musk bought it for around $44 billion two years ago, and WBD stock hitting novel lows pretty standardly, both parties could use a media frifinish or potential cash injection.
With that, WBD did not react to seek for comment from Deadline on the Alcon legal case. If they do, this post will be refreshd. Musk may be a bit busy today too, as his vow to hand out $1 million a day to a enrolled voter up until Election Day watchs to be hitting a political and legitimate wall.
Just another day in Elonland and Zasland.