The author of a 2006 novel has accused the “Avengers” director and “Cabin” director Drew Goddard of stealing his idea.
With just weeks until his box-office victory lap for “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” Joss Whedon is now facing a lawsuit accusing him of stealing the idea for the 2012 meta-horror movie The Cabin in the Woods.
Whedon produced and co-wrote the script for Cabin with director Drew Goddard, a writer on Whedon’s “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and a fanboy favorite in his own right, with credits that include Netflix’s “Daredevil” (and reportedly may soon include Sony’s upcoming Spider-Man projects). Whedon and Goddard are named as defendants, along with Lionsgate and Whedon’s Mutant Enemy production company, in the complaint filed Monday in California federal court.