The studio and filmmakers behind the successful “Conjuring” franchise are being sued by the author Gerald Brittle for $900 Million. Brittle wrote a book in 1980 called “The Demonologist.” which is based on a husband and wife team of world renown ghost hunters Ed and Lorraine Warren.

The three films in under the studio’s name grossed $886 Million at the global box office, and two more films are on the way. The movie franchise is a dramatization of the Warren’s case files.

Brittle claims that he had an exclusive agreement with Ed and Lorraine Warren that gave him exclusive and sole use of their case files for any works, books, movies, comics, so on.

Warner Brothers Pictures made its own deal with the Warrens, which lead to the production of “The Conjuring,” “The Conjuring 2,” and “Annabelle.” Brittle launched his lawsuit on the grounds their franchise violated his contract with the Warrens. Why he’s suing the studio instead of the Warrens who’s names are on the contract is anyone’s guess.

So in a slick lawyer’s play Warner Bros countered with the claim that the Conjuring movies weren’t based on Brittle’s book but instead are based on historical facts putting the Warren’s stories under common use laws. For those who don’t understand, No one can claim the rights to Lincoln’s assassination and anyone can make any story they want based on that event. But a person can not write a story about a man escaping prison by digging a hole through a wall with a jeweler’s hammer and hiding it behind a poster, because that entire story was created by an author and anyone else who uses that is deriving from their work.

Brittle says that can’t be possible because he (and other skeptics) have concluded that the Warrens’ case files about paranormal and supernatural activity are complete fabrications. This puts the studio between a rock and a hard place as they now have two options. Hand over $900 Million dollars or prove in a court of law that ghost are in fact real.