Rockstar Games allegedly threatened to sue director Frank Darabont over ‘L.A. Noir’ TV show

Hollywood director Frank Darabont (The Walking Dead, The Green Mile) claims Rockstar Games once threatened to sue him over a new TV show called L.A. Noir (now renamed Lost Angels) because it was too similar to the video game developer’s 2011 detective game, L.A. Noire.

Darabont says his show is based on a novel of the same name by John Buntin published in 2010. “But the video game company with the video game called L.A. Noire — with an e! — threatened to sue the shit out of me, TNT, every company that actually ever worked in Hollywood. And they have the billions of dollars to back it up, apparently,” says Darabont in a recent interview with website io9.