{"id":2423,"date":"2015-11-04T02:03:49","date_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2015-11-04T02:03:49","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T02:03:49","slug":"quantico-9-trouble-at-quantico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/11\/04\/quantico-9-trouble-at-quantico\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantico #9: Trouble at Quantico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 10\/29 the news broke that executive producer of Quanitco, Mark Gordon, is being sued for stealing the idea for the show from a CNN documentary. Paula Paizes and Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and Jamie Hellman, creators of the documentary in question, <em>Quantico: The Making of an FBI Agent,<\/em> are the ones bringing the lawsuit. Paizes had previously worked for Gordon and brought him a movie idea about Quantico, which his company optioned, agreed for a producer credit, and to receive profits from the movie.<\/p>\n<p>The documentary that Paizes ended up creating gave her exclusive access to the actual FBI training center, with personal stories from trainees. Paizes 2 years later in 2003 went back to Gordon to create that movie she always wanted, but Gordon and his company gave her no answer.<\/p>\n<p>Voil\u00e0! 2014 comes along and ABC orders Quantico with the Mark Gordon Company producing. Paizes lawsuit says, \u201c&#8221;the detailed knowledge of training techniques, lifestyle and terminology used in\u00a0<em>Quantico<\/em>\u00a0could only have derived from the transcripts and notes obtained by Leibovitz and Hellman during their unprecedented access to FBI recruits for the Documentary, copies of which were retained by [Gordon].&#8221; Gordon\u2019s company has declined to comment and ABC has not released a statement yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday 10\/29 the news broke that executive producer of Quanitco, Mark Gordon, is being sued for stealing the idea for the show from a CNN documentary. Paula Paizes and Barbara Leibovitz Hellman and Jamie Hellman, creators of the documentary in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/2015\/11\/04\/quantico-9-trouble-at-quantico\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[563],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2424,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/2424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bejone03.expressions.syr.edu\/trf594\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}