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We explore the abandoned home of Lucien Lambert, a French screenwriter, who was robbed of his Hollywood recognition…

Lambert’s passion and career was in writing, he wrote many scripts throughout his life but it was in 1982 when he would write ‘Emilie’.

In 1991, Claude Zidi releases the hit film ‘La Totale!’ which turns out to be a plagiarised version of ‘Emilie’, yet Lambert never watches the film and is completely unaware.

Zidi later sells the rights for the film on to Titanic director, James Cameron and in 1994 he releases the remake ‘True Lies’, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger.
It brought in 378 million dollars worldwide, becoming the thirdhighestgrossing film of 1994, behind The Lion King and Forrest Gump. This put 15 million dollars into Zidis pocket.

Lambert, getting no credit for his work on either accounts, finally find out and his battle with Hollywood began, he loses the first case as he’s unable to prove when his script was written.

French actress Sylvie Jolie eventually stepped forward with evidence that the script had been sent to her in the 80’s and the court finally ruled in Lamberts favour.
He received an undisclosed chunk of the 15 million dollars that went to Zidi.

Lambert’s many movie scripts remain scattered throughout his mansion which now sits abandoned in the center of a quaint French village.

He passed away in 2005 at the age of 86. Although he received money for his work, his name will always be missing from the credits of those movies.

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