An accusation of plagiarism has been made about Alexander Payne's "The Holdovers," which is nominated for the Best Screenplay award at this year's Oscars. Simon Stephenson, who wrote "Luca" and "Paddington 2," emailed the Writers Guild of America's senior director of credits on Jan. 12 to discuss the issue, referring to the "Holdovers" script as a "line-by-line" plagiarism from his screenplay, "Frisco," which was doing the rounds in Hollywood in 2013 and which Stephenson says Payne had seen. Variety has the exclusive.
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