Dave Franco and Alison Brie sued for alleged copyright infringementover blatant rip-off horror film Together

At least they can face it together.Alison Brie and Dave Franco have been hit with a copyright infringement lawsuit over their upcoming film “Together,” The Post can confirm.The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday, May 13, by production company StudioFest, which claimed that they pitched the script to Franco and Brie’s agents at WME in 2020 but the real-life couple allegedly “passed on the offer to star in the project.”Fast-forward to January 2025, when StudioFest “learned that Franco and Brie were producing and starring in a virtually identical film entitled Together, written and directed by another WME client—Michael Shanks.”In the lawsuit obtained by The Post, the production company accused Brie, 42, and Franco, 39, of producing a “blatant rip-off” of a “Better Half,” a 2023 independent film written by Patrick Phelan and produced by Jess Jacklin and Charles Beale, which StudioFest claimed it had “exclusive rights to develop, produce and exploit.”In the court documents, StudioFest’s attorney, Dan Miller, pointed out what he claimed to be the “striking similarities” between both films, including their alleged plot points and the main concept of a couple who “wake up to find their bodies physically fused together as a metaphor for codependency.”“My client’s original work was stolen,” Miller told The Post on Wednesday.“The similarities between the two works are staggering and defy any innocent explanation.“We intend to hold the defendants accountable,” he added, “and look forward to trial.”Jacklin and Beale created StudioFest, per the documents; however, the company is the only plaintiff listed in the lawsuit.

Brie and Franco, who married in March 2017, were allegedly approached to star in “Better Half” after the casting director reportedly sent a script to the pair’s agents at William Morris Endeavor on August 19, 2020 via email, per the lawsuit’s exhibit reviewed by The Post.The following day, Franco’s agent ...