Kalki 2898 AD‘ is leaving everyone stunned with its trailer which released recently. The film starring Amitabh Bachchan, Prabhas, Deepika Padukone is a futuristic take on Mahabharat and the scale at which the movie is mounted is hard to miss. However, looks like the makers are now in trouble as a Hollywood concept artist has accused the makers of ‘Kalki 2898 AD’ for copying his art work.
This artist named Oliver Beck, took to X (formerly Twitter), dropped two images for comparison and said, “Sad to see that some of the work I did for Star Trek: Prodigy got stolen by Vyjayanthi movies in their trailer. This is the matte painting I did for Star Trek under direction of Ben Hibon and Alessandro Taini and then as it appears in the trailer.”
He shared two other images for comparison and said, “They also stole work directly from the very talented Sung Choi.” Now Oliver has spoken in an interview with Indian express and said, “It might be difficult to see the plagiarism when you are not an artist. You might not see it immediately but all my artist friends that I have talked to and the artist community are very clear that this was referenced from my work and you can see clearly that the main takeaways are the colour palettes, it is the same, and also the shapes. It is not an exact copy but the shapes are similar. It is too much of a coincidence because they also contacted me to work on this film. So, they know my portfolio and they have seen my work so it is too much of a coincidence.”
He further added that it would difficult for him to take legal action as it’s not an exact copy. “Legal recourse is challenging for me because there isn’t direct copying of my artwork. Legal action typically requires very evident plagiarism, such as in Sung Choi’s case where the work was practically copy-pasted.’
‘Kalki 2898 AD’ is set to release on June 27.
