A producer has filed a complaint claiming that she was not given credit or paid for her work on the upcoming Rachel Weisz comedy “Dead Ringers” which will be available on Amazon Prime Video.
Renee Tab sued the production company Morgan Creek Entertainment accusing it of violating her contract by shopping the project to Amazon. Amazon announced the project in August 2020. The show is expected out sometime in 2023.
The show stars Weisz as an unethical twin gynecologist. It is based on the 1988 David Cronenberg film of the same name which featured Jeremy Irons in the lead role.
In the suit Tab alleges that she came up with the idea of reversing the gender of the lead characters and of casting Weisz in the project. The tab claims that she and Morgan Creek entered into an attachment agreement in 2014 under which she would serve as an executive producer on the series.
According to the suit Tab had a “deep history†with Cronenberg and was aware of Weisz’s passion for the material and that she did significant work developing the idea. She alleges that Morgan Creek turned around and sold the project to Amazon without her knowledge.
