The authorized saga surrounding the supposed income garnered by the household whose life was become the Sandra Bullock (Academy Award profitable) film The Blind Side has taken one other flip.
Back in August, followers of the film (itself primarily based on a non-fiction e book by Michael Lewis) have been surprised when Michael Oher, the younger man whose life was the topic of each the e book and the movie, took his adoptive mother and father to court docket, alleging that regardless of what they claimed they by no means truly adopted him, and as a substitute made themselves his conservators. (Doing so, he claimed, gave them the correct to make enterprise offers on his behalf, and to preserve the lion’s share of the cash from telling their story for themselves.) He additional claimed the household, the Tuohys, used this conservatorship to “gain financial advantages for themselves and the foundations which they own or which they exercise control.”
The court docket ended this conservatorship again within the fall, however the case involving the cash earned from The Blind Side continues. And in a brand new submitting from the Tuohys, they allege that Oher demanded they pay him hundreds of thousands of {dollars} or he would go public with the small print of their struggle over the earnings from The Blind Side.
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The Tuohys supplied the court docket with what they claimed have been screenshots of textual content messages from Oher during which he made his alleged calls for. “If something isn’t resolved this Friday,” one reads, “I’m going to go ahead and tell the world, how I was robbed by my suppose to be [sic] parents. That’s the deadline.” The Tuohys have claimed they have been paid the identical quantity for The Blind Side as Oher.
The Blind Side movie wound up grossing greater than $300 million worldwide. Bullock received the Academy Award for Best Actress enjoying Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose household (at the least within the movie) befriends after which adopts Michael Oher (performed by Quinton Aaron), a young person within the foster-care system. At the time information of the rift between Oher and the Tuohys broke, Oher additionally claimed that his relationship with the household was negatively impacted by the movie, which he felt portrayed him as “unintelligent.” He additional said that the best way the film depicted him as a person who struggled academically clouded some NFL coaches’ opinions of him and what roles he might play on the soccer discipline.
Oher has but to publicly touch upon the most recent developments within the case.
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