Writers David Elliot and Paul Lovett have sued Paramount, MGM, Hasbro, and producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura over the script for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, alleging that their ideas were used without compensation, according to Hollywood Reporter.  The suit asks for at least $23 million in actual and compensatory damages.  The film has grossed over $100 mllion in the U.S. (see "'Iron Man 3' Earns $195 Million Overseas").

Elliot and Lovett, two of the writers on the first G.I. Joe film, The Rise of Cobra, allege that they were asked to submit ideas as auditions for the job of writing the second script.  But after extensive interaction with the plaintiffs, the suit alleges, the two were not hired, but their ideas were used in "nearly every aspect of the Joe Retaliation Movie, from the beginning to the end."