Angelina Jolie celebrated the New York premiere of her newest film In the Land of Blood and Honey last night, but the Oscar-winning actress and her debut as a Hollywood writer/director were marred by controversy.
Jolie is being sued for copyright infringement over Blood and Honey by a Croatian journalist who alleges the plot of the new film bares a striking resemblance to a novel he wrote back in 2007.
A lawsuit brought by James J. Braddock insists that the plot of Jolie's first foray into screenwriting is lifted from his book The Soul Shattering, which is an account of the tragedies and abuse Bosnian and Herzegovinian women suffered during the war there.
Like Braddock's book, In the Land of Blood and Honey revolves around a love story set in a Serbian concentration camp during the war in the early '90s.
Braddock points out that both his book and the new film have similarities that go beyond coincidental: Both have a main female character living in Sarajevo who is captured and develops a relationship with the camp's commander, whose father is an important, high-ranking officer and nationalist of theYugoslav People's Army.
But that's not all. In addition to content similarities, Braddock claims that after his book was published, he met with Edin Sarkic on multiple occasions to discuss the book's plot, character development, and cultural/historical significance. The issue here is that Sarkic went on to produce Jolie's new film without consulting Braddock.
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