Take-Two Interactive is this month's whipping boy. Trundling along on the heels of the Hot Coffee subpoena and the resulting stock flaccidity, a bad-tempered little lawsuit from Roger Hill, who played gang leader "Cyrus" in the movie's "The Warriors," the precursor to Take-Two recent game of the same name. Says Gamasutra:

Roger Hill, who played gang leader Cyrus in the original 1979 movie, has filed a suit demanding $250,000 and a court order barring the use of his likeness, according to a New York Daily News report. The suit maintains that Take-Two and Rockstar have generated at least $37 million in revenue from the game.

He further states that they attempted to involve him in the game from the beginning, offering to pay for his name and voice, but that he declined. This is possibly what prompted the "extended universe"-free demise of the Cyrus character in the beginning of the game, which is the catalyst for the gang war that follows.

Take-Two retorts that the company "has a valid third-party license for the rights to use Roger Hill's likeness and the character of Cyrus in The Warriors video game and related marketing materials".

Hill is apparently out of the acting business and working at a Manhattan business college's library, where students knowingly keep books past their due dates in an attempt to provoke one of his marvelous lectures. If he's in a good mood, he'll even get out the robe. Eliza Gauger

More here [Gamasutra]
Excellent little rundown about the movie here [Fringe Underground]

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