Reporter sues over film footage

The Canadian reporter known as the “Scud Stud” during the 1991 Gulf War has sued the makers of “Charlie Wilson’s War” over footage used in the Tom Hanks-Julia Roberts movie.

Arthur Kent, whose live NBC reports from Saudi Arabia on Iraq’s Scud missile attacks made him a celebrity, claims in a federal lawsuit filed in Los Angeles this week that filmmakers violated his intellectual property rights.

The lawsuit claims Universal Studios and other companies used segments of a 1986 news program Kent made about the Soviet Union’s war in Afghanistan without his consent. A studio spokesman could not be reached for comment.