Bam Margera sues Paramount, Johnny Knoxville, MTV and others over “Jackass” dismissal – Deadline

Donkey co-creator Bam Margera is suing Johnny Knoxville, Paramount Pictures, MTV and others over his dismissal of the next film in the franchise.

Seeking millions of dollars in damages, the 39-page lawsuit filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court (read it here) cites “the defendants’ inhuman, abusive and discriminatory treatment of plaintiff Margera, and for their wrongful dismissal of the Jackass franchise. he created.”

The suit says that in March 2020, Paramount signed Margera for a fourth Donkey film, now titled Jackass forever. They conditioned Margera‘s participation and compensation for membership in a “Welfare Agreement ”which required him to perform several daily screening tests. The costume claims that “While Margera was in a rehab center in 2019, Spike Jonze (his producer) and Knoxville (his co-star) approached him and forced him to sign the “draconian” deal.

Paramount terminated the contract in August 2020, citing a violation of the “Well-being agreement. At that point, after Margera has already shot scenes and developed ideas for inclusion in the film, the majority of which are used in Jackass forever, the costume claims.

“The defendants went so far as to hire a doctor who faced Margera every morning to make sure Margera was taking the cocktail of pills that Paramount‘The medical team prescribed him pills that left him physically and mentally exhausted, depressed and a shell of himself, ”the costume says.

Other defendants named in the lawsuit include Donkey writer-producer Jeffrey Tremaine, Dickhouse Entertainment and Gorilla Flicks.

“I’m pissed off, angry, hurt and broken that Johnny, Jeff, Spike and the studios and producers ripped off my creativity, content and stunts to make this movie, fired me without justification and refuses to pay for my work ” , Margera said in a statement. “I created this franchise before any of these guys got involved.”

Margera (real name Brandon Margera) is represented in the case by Eric George, Dennis Ellis, Katherine Murray and Serli Polatoglu of Browne George Ross O‘Brien Annaguey & Ellis, as well as his personal lawyers and Alison Triessl, and Todd Thibodo.