Reese Witherspoon has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit by a writer who says that the book and movie ?Gone Girl? ripped off her own work. In addition to Witherspoon, who served as a producer on the film, the suit also names ?Gone Girl? author Gillian Flynn, director David Fincher, 20th Century Fox Film Corporation and other defendants. In the suit, filed in federal court in Illinois on Wednesday, Leslie Weller says that she first filed a registration for her work ?Out of the Blue? with the U.S. Copyright Office in 2006. The suit alleges ?striking, substantial and numerous similarities? between ?Out of the Blue? and ?Gone Girl,? including that ?both focus on a married couple?s relationship. Alleging copyright infringement, the suit seeks unspecified damages, and for the defendants to ?disgorge to Plaintiff all gains, profits, and advantages derived by their copyright infringement.?
