Issa Rae is getting dragged into courtroom after three Los Angeles creatives say her film “One of Them Days” is lifted from their authentic screenplay.

Writers Joshua Isaacson, Shon Oku and Tyrone Perry declare they penned a script again in 2020 known as One of Those Days and registered the copyright. Fast ahead to 2025, and so they say Rae’s crew dropped a flick with a virtually an identical title and a storyline that hits approach too near dwelling.

The trio filed their lawsuit on July 30, naming Issa Rae’s firm Color Creative, Sony Pictures, TriStar and screenwriter Syreeta Singleton. They’re accusing them of copyright infringement, thought theft, and conversion—mainly saying Rae and crew jacked their story and ran with it prefer it was theirs.

According to courtroom docs, the writers say they shared their screenplay with producer Danny Hamouie in late 2023, the primary time anybody exterior of the trio had ever seen the script.

They by no means heard again from Hamouie, who just isn’t named within the lawsuit.

Next, they later handed it over to Roman Arabia and his associate Xavier Charles, who personal an organization known as Green Eggs Go H.A.M. (GEG), in April 2024, hoping to safe some funding.

GEG handed on the challenge, however the twist? Charles used to work on Rae’s present Insecure. Weeks after that rejection, information broke that Issa Rae was gearing as much as produce a movie known as One of Them Days.

The writers declare the film, which hit theaters on January 17, 2025, copies their script’s total circulate—plot, characters, and all. They even introduced in screenwriting skilled John Brancato, who backed them up, saying the “underlying story structure” was approach too comparable.

The film, directed by Lawrence Lamont and written by Singleton, starred Keke Palmer and SZA. It adopted two buddies attempting to hustle up lease cash.

The movie pulled in over $51 million on a $14 million funds and was a field workplace win for Sony and TriStar. Now, the unique writers need that bag. They’re asking for damages, attorneys’ charges and a jury trial to settle the dispute.

The lawsuit says the Issa Rae and others concerned with the flick “misappropriated Plaintiffs’ original expression and passed it off as their own without authorization, credit, or compensation.”

Whether Rae’s crew copied or not, this case might find yourself costing anyone much more than lease cash.

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