Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Nobelist Marquez
A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed a lawsuit today against Nobel Prize-winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, who was accused of violating a contract to make a movie from his novel, “Love in the Time of Cholera.”
U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real threw out the case after apparently finding that the Colombian author had never entered an enforceable contract with produer Richard Roth to make a movie based on the best-selling book.
On Dec. 16, Roth sued Marquez and his literary agent in Spain, accusing them of interfering with the producer’s contract to make the movie by demanding that a “Latin American director” handle the project. In the suit, Roth said the insistence of Marquez and his agent, Carmen Balcells, on a Latin American director meant that Roth was “unable to secure financing for filming.”
Lawyers for Marquez contended that while the author negotiated a movie deal with Roth, he never turned over the film rights.
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