A filmmaker has simply sued Netflix, LeBron James, the NBA star’s manufacturing firm and a bunch of others … claiming they stole one in every of his scripts — after which used it as the idea for one in every of their latest hit basketball films.

Rob Grabow — a screenwriter who directed the 2023 drama “The Yr of the Canine” — spelled out the allegations in a 25-page lawsuit … that was filed on Thursday in a California federal court docket.

Grabow states he had written a script for “The Reward of the Recreation” — and it was all a couple of Native American excessive schooler and his efforts to steer his basketball group to a state title.

Grabow claims the work was “a strong basketball movie that offers with problems with group, race relations and poverty” — however he says after he shared it with folks near Netflix, James and the hooper’s SpringHill Firm ripped off the concept and repackaged it for a 2024 flick titled, “Rez Ball.”

Within the swimsuit, Grabow states the similarities between his film and Netflix’s are staggering.

He cites a number of situations … together with the work’s ending, when (spoiler alert) — the protagonist is fouled whereas making an attempt to make the successful basket through the championship recreation.

“There are quite a few considerably and strikingly comparable concrete and expressive components within the two works’ plot, theme, dialogue, temper, setting, tempo, characters and sequence of occasions,” Grabow wrote within the swimsuit.

He claims “Rez Ball” is definitely nearer to his screenplay than the guide it was supposedly impressed by.

Grabow is suing for copyright infringement, breach of contract and extra … and is asking for unspecified damages.