Bomb disposal expert claims makers of The Hurt Locker stole his story

Published: 8:30AM GMT 04 March 2010

Previous of Images Next Sgt Sarver was the theme of a 2005 essay in Playboy repository underneath the pretension "The Man in the Bomb Suit." Photo: EPA The Hurt Locker has been nominated for 9 Oscars

Master Sergeant Jeffrey S. Sarver, 38, has filed a legal case claiming that the movie makers incited an comment of his moving practice defusing bombs in Iraq in to the rarely regarded action-thriller but his consent.

Sgt Sarver told a headlines discussion that he would have been happy to offer as a expert to scriptwriter Mark Boal and executive Kathryn Bigelow but was allegedly never asked.

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"I felt a small bit left out," he said. "I didn"t know my rights."

The film"s distributor, Summit Entertainment, has since released a matter reiterating the movie"s explain that it is a "fictional account" about soldiers in the battlefield.

Sgt Sarver was the theme of a 2005 essay in Playboy repository underneath the pretension "The Man in the Bomb Suit."

The essay was created by Mr Boal, screenwriter for The Hurt Locker, formed on his observations as an embedded contributor with Sgt Sarver"s bomb-defusing patrol in Iraq in 2004.

Sgt Sarver"s lawyer, Geoffrey Fieger, pronounced the main impression in the film, Will James, was obviously a illustration of his client, down to his personal call vigilance "Blaster One."

"If any one tells you that Sergeant Sarver isn"t Will James, that"s a diverting statement," pronounced Mr Fieger.

The Hurt Locker has been nominated for 9 Oscars. It got high outlines from critics and has been deliberate a front-runner for most appropriate movie when the Academy Awards are since out on Sunday.

Boal told the Los Angeles Times that he had talked to some-more than 100 soldiers during his investigate "and reshuffled all I schooled in a approach that would be authentic, but would additionally have for a thespian story."