Mark Forstater
Mark Irwin Forstater (born 1943) is a film producer, writer, and audio producer, notable for producing the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail and then in 2012 suing the five living members of Monty Python over a dispute regarding royalties from merchandising income, including the Spamalot musical, which was "lovingly ripped off from" the Holy Grail movie.[1]
Biography
He was born in 1943.
On 4 July 2013, he won the High Court of Justice case against the surviving members of Monty Python over royalty payments to Spamalot as a derivative work of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. They owed £800,000 in past royalties and legal fees, prompting them to produce Monty Python Live (Mostly) in 2014 to pay down their debt.[1][2][3]
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