Animator Buck Woodall claims former Mandeville Films development director Jenny Marchick passed his "substantially similar" screenplay to Disney years ... suit against the original 2016 film ...

Buck Woodall, a writer, producer and artist, filed a lawsuit on Friday, Jan. 10, claiming The Walt Disney Company, an independent film company called Mandeville Films and Jenny Marchick ...

The original ... at Mandeville Films, an independent film production studio in California. Marchick allegedly told Woodall that the production studio held a "first look" deal with Disney, meaning ...