Who Framed Gary Wolf?

This is an interesting bit of business that's been going on for a while. Gary Wolf, creator of Roger Rabbit, has sued Disney for royalties he believes he was owed from merchandise sales after the film was released. Disney said otherwise. Anyway, the ruling was both in favour of Wolf and not-so-much in favour of Wolf. He got something, but not exactly what he had hoped for.

The verdict could have changed how profit sharing was handled in Hollywood, but no such luck.

I don't know if Wolf is hurting for money or if he did this solely for the principle of it, but you'd think that when you get in bed with Disney on a project, you have to sort of expect something like this to happen. Wolf's not the first guy to get burned by Disney and he won't be the last.

mike