Michael Sheen and Channel 4 have become embroiled in a legal row in the midst of claim ideas for the recent debt documentary of the actor, were 'copied'.
A team of independent TV producers has become the program of the Welsh Star, 'Michael Sheen's Secret Million Pound Giveaway', of which they claim to be a striking similarity with a rejected documentary that they gooed at the star years earlier.
Lawyers representing filmmakers Daniel Edelstyn and Hilary Powell have Sheen and the team behind his documentary and claim that it seems similar to their own project 'Bank Job' of the duo, 'Bank Job'.
Edelstyn and Powell reportedly had contact with the people of the Hollywood A-Lister between 2017 and 2020 and had tried to get him to participate in their show, which was thrown in vain to a trio of Channel 4-Commissioners.
But the couple – which spent their life horses with the development of the program – was stunned when they saw the Sheen documentary three weeks ago, reports the Guardian and has now questioned 'the originality'.
TV producers behind Sheen's show, however, state that it was 'independently developed' and Channel 4 claimed that it was 'ridiculous' to suggest that the actor's program was a 'copy' of Bankbaan. The Sheen team added that he was “regularly” pictured “documentary ideas”, but “stands only for those in which he believes.”
Although he was rejected by TV, Bankjob was still filmed and shown in independent cinemas in 2021. In it, producers used a team of financing experts to identify £ 1 million in debts with a high interest rate that is owed by people in Walthamstow, East London, East London.
Financial rules means that large debts that are probably never fully paid can be purchased and arranged for a reduced amount. The filmmakers behind the bank task have reportedly benefited from this Maas in the Maas to 'destroy robbery debts'.
They picked up £ 40,000 for the show. Half was used to buy a portfolio, to wipe it effectively and then buy a van and blown up to mark the debt. The other £ 20,000 was donated to a food bank, homeless kitchen, youth project and school.
Michael Sheen (photo) and Channel 4 have become embroiled in a legal row in the midst of claim ideas for the recent debt documentary of the actor, were 'copied'
Lawyers representing filmmakers Daniel Edelstyn and Hilary Powell (photo) have Sheen and the team behind his documentary and say it looks like the Duos 2021 project, 'Bank Job'
However, Sheen's documentary is aimed at cutting debts that are owed by people in his hometown of Port Talbot. The 56-year-old Frost/Nixon star pumped £ 100,000 of his own money to buy and wipe the debt.
Fans later greeted him as a 'man of the people' to erase £ 1 million debts for 900 people.
However, lawyers who represent Edelnn and Powell, and production company optimistic, claimed that Bankjob had been the 'first time' an action to sweep debts in this way, had been carried out by a British TV program.
“It is difficult for our customer not to conclude that his ideas were used without permission or, at least volatile credit,” said the letter from Entertainment Legal Company Russells, the Guardian reported.
Edelstyn and Powell reportedly claim that the idea for their documentary first came into existence in 2014 before they subsequently approached Sheen – who is also an activist for social justice – with their project, three years later.
The Sheen team reportedly responded at the time that they 'worked on a big debt project' and possibly interested in the duo's pitch.
The communication reportedly continued between the people of the actor and optimistic until June 2020. Bank Job premiered in May 2021. Production company Full Fat TV threw their idea of ​​the debt documentary in June 2021, said lawyers for Optimistic.
In a statement, there was full of thick TV that their company had 'developed and threw' the show on Sheen and Channel 4 and that it was a 'shame that an important message about unfairness in the credit system … Risks are lost due to these unfounded claims'.
Sheen used £ 100,000 of his own money to produce his documentary, which was broadcast last month
Sheen is depicted in his channel 4 -documentary 'Michael Sheen's Million Pound Giveaway'
Channel 4 claims that the commissioner that Green-Lit Michael Sheen's million pounds had not been aware of a pitch of the team behind the bank lane.
“These two programs are considerably different and it is ridiculous to suggest that one is a copy of the other,” a spokesperson for the broadcaster told MailOnline:
“Buying and debit debts is an established practice that has been dealt with several times in the media and the commissioner who litigates green and worked on the million pound Giveaway by Michael Sheen was not aware of Bankbaan.”
MailOnline has approached Sheen for comment.
In a statement, a spokesperson for the actor told the Guardian that Sheen had “had a long campaign about debt inequality” and that he took “enormously personal and financial risk” by pumping £ 100,000 of his own money into it.
Sheen was also inspired to help people in South Wales after he saw John Oliver doing something similar in the US almost 10 years ago.
It adds that the star was' not paid 'for making the show and that he' is' regular documentary ideas, but only connects to those in which he really believes'.
Speaking of his documentary about one show last month, the actor added: 'I didn't have £ 100,000 to throw around, so I wanted it to be effective, but when I realized that I could do this, that I could, that I could do [get] £ 1 million on the debts of people and just depreciating it, it seemed like a good thing to do.
'The debts of people are put in bundles and then companies can buy in debts that buy bundles and then they can sell them at a different debt company at a lower price.
“So the debt itself, although the amount of people who owed is still the same, the people who own the debt can sell it for less and less money.”
