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Report: Hells Angels founder sues HBO over biker series
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Monday, April 21st 2008, 1:13 PM
LOS ANGELES - The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle club has sued HBO, claiming the pay cable network cut him out of an upcoming pilot he helped develop, The Hollywood Reporter reported.
Sonny Barger filed a lawsuit in federal court in Los Angeles last week against HBO, production company White Mountain Co. and the project's writer/executive producer, Michael Tolkin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the series "1 percent" originally was set at an Arizona chapter of the fictional Death Rangers, one of the toughest motorcycle clubs in the country. The central character is a biker, Misfit, sent in from a Northern California chapter to bring it under control.
HBO is getting ready to start production on the show, which will feature Donal Logue as Misfit.
Barger claims in the lawsuit that he and Tolkin pitched HBO on a motorcycle club-centered series. The cable network turned to Tolkin to create it.
A call to HBO for comment wasn't immediately returned Monday.
Among the objections Barger lists in the lawsuit are "that some characters introduced by Tolkin too close resembled or depicted living persons (in particular a character named 'Chief,' which for decades has been a well-known nickname or alias for Sonny Barger), that some actual place names used in the script were too identifiably associated with Sonny Barger and the Hells Angels (such as the primary location being Carefree, AZ, which is the town adjacent to where Sonny Barger presently resides, and that the principal character has moved from Northern California, which is exactly what Sonny Barger did)."
The name of the Chief character has been changed to Cap, the setting of the show has been moved to Apache Junction, Ariz., and Misfit now comes from Valhalla, Ore.
The lawsuit seeks to make the show's script a joint work of Sonny Barger Productions and Tolkin, and seeks to keep the program from being sold or telecast. Barger also wants compensation for what he calls the exploitation of his publicity rights.
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Well that SON-OF-A-BRITCHES Barger!!!
I don't know where he gets off suin' somebody else after stealin' MY idea about a Californian 99%-er movin' to Arizona!!!(now isn't THAT a friggin' "coincidence"?!)
And besides THAT, I don't know if you people know this EITHER, but he ALSO kind'a stole the name of the motorcycle club I started years ago called the "Hells Agnostics" TOO!!!!
(MAN...the nerve of some people, HUH?!)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Didn't he really get the name from a WW2 fighter group?
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GEEZ Ian! Didn't I just tell ya he stole it from ME???!!!
(okay...actually I think he stole it from the old Howard Hughes WWI combat airplane movie of the same name)
Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)
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Is he really upset or does he just want to get paid?
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When an outlaw biker turns to attorneys to settle a score, has he officially sold out?
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I don't think so, they are about money and the only way to get at that money is lawyers. Strong arm tactics wouldn't work very well in this case.
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Most Outlaw Bikers won't associate with lawyers. They say they're too mean and uncivilized. 
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They are planing on using the handheld look as seen in Cloverfield or Galactica so the Triumphs are out of the question; they proved to be too smooth for such shots.
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I refuse to comment on any thing regarding Hells Angels or 1%ers. Just in case they are reading this and then come looking for me 
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Well on a side note... the book "******'s Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger" is a pretty entertaining, easy read & you get to "hear" other sides of the stories we've heard about over the years. The whole Rolling Stone, Altamont fiasco is a great part.
Speakin of I for one personally don't buy into that news story of a month or 2 ago saying some Angles were tryin to kill Mick & failed... somethin about them launching their attack from a boat?!?!? I'd imagine if the Angles wanted you gone, you'd be gone....
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When an outlaw biker turns to attorneys to settle a score, has he officially sold out?
My thopughts exactly... Sonny? Drawing his lawyer and not a tire iron? Next thing ya know somone will buy the rights to the Beatles songs and use them to sell sneakers or somthin.
The percentage you're paying is too high-priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
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"Most Outlaw Bikers won't associate with lawyers."
Times they are a changin; I had a cigar with a Outlaw biker the other day that is a lawyer.
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They have all associated with lawyers. When they were defendants 
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Now that I think about it... ******'s Angels and Lawyers... makes perfect sense to me! 
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Same parallel as the La Cosa Nostra and lawyers.....
Corrupt men run in packs literally and legally. I suspect the HA and Mongols and others have fully vetted full patch RUBS who in essence trade legal representation for the priviledge of wearing the renowned patch of the HA.
They work hard all week screwing the common man out of as much dough as they can and on weekends occasionally they don the gear and play at being an OUTLAW bad boy.
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Same parallel as the La Cosa Nostra and lawyers.....
Corrupt men run in packs literally and legally. I suspect the HA and Mongols and others have fully vetted full patch RUBS who in essence trade legal representation for the priviledge of wearing the renowned patch of the HA.
They work hard all week screwing the common man out of as much dough as they can and on weekends occasionally they don the gear and play at being an OUTLAW bad boy.
So some of these lawyers view that as "a priviledge", huh Kevin?! 
Well, just goes to show what I've always said...One doesn't have to be real smart to go into "the professions", huh?!
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Well if you like me tends to think that at least some percentage of lawyers are Corrupt...then yessir.
I am sure that the HA have members from all the professions and that they use them to great advantage wherever applicable
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