Overview

• Producers of Better Half filed suit in May, accusing the Sundance hit Together of copying the central couple-fuse premise and specific references to the Spice Girls and Plato’s Symposium.
• Defense attorney Nicolas Jampol contends that Together’s body horror approach and thematic treatment set it apart from the original romcom.
• Jampol cited screenwriter Michael Shanks’s 2019 Writers Guild of America registration as evidence that Together predates Better Half’s pitch to Brie and Franco’s agent.
• The plaintiffs’ attorney highlighted virtually identical genital-attachment and bathroom-concealment scenes to argue for copyrightable expression.
• June letters reveal the defense urging dismissal and warning of attorneys’ fees if the lawsuit continues, signaling a high-stakes legal standoff.