If you’re unfamiliar with the case, Warner Bros. is being sued by Gerald Brittle for allegedly swiping parts of Brittle’s book The Demonologist, which was his non-fiction account of (as the book’s subtitle puts it) ‘The Extraordinary Career of Ed and Lorraine Warren,’ the very same couple who inspired the plot of The Conjuring. Now, the case has a court date and will see trial if a settlement is not reached, but a Warner Bros. spokesman didn’t frame the decision as a wholly negative one, in part because the judge also removed several names from the lawsuits list of defendants, including Time Warner, Conjuring director James Wan, and the film’s screenwriters Chad and Carey Hayes: Ouch. The court date for Brittle’s lawsuit against Warner Bros. is April 16th, 2018, so keep an eye out for any additional developments between now and then.
