Author who wrote book called Gravity sues film with same name, similar plot
In 1999 author Tess Gerritsen first published Gravity, a medical/space adventure that saw its female lead, Emma Watson (no, not that Emma Watson), stranded in space after an outbreak kills the rest of her crew on the International Space Station. Last year’s Alfonso Cuarón directed Gravity told a sort-of-similar tale of a woman lost in space, but it was one that Gerritsen gleefully dismissed as a coincidence in a blog post when the film first started coming together in 2010. However, now Gerritsen has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros., the company behind Cuarón’s Gravity—confusingly not for copyright infringement, but rather for breach of contract. Gerritsen alleges she sold the film rights to her book to a New Line Cinema subsidiary called Katja, which Warner Bros. would come to own when it purchased New Line in 2008.