JUDD APATOW - APATOW DENIES KNOCKED UP COPIES BOOK

APATOW DENIES KNOCKED UP COPIES BOOK

LATEST: KNOCKED UP director JUDD APATOW has denied claims his movie copies Canadian writer REBECCA ECKLER's best-selling book Knocked Up: Confessions Of A Hip Mother-To-Be, insisting "they are two very different stories". Eckler filed a copyright infringement suit against Apatow and Universal Pictures in January (07), seeking unspecified damages. In the latest issue of MAClean's magazine, Eckler writes, "Both my book and the movie feature one night of passion and the nine months that follow. Fine. Whatever. "But what got me was the fact that Alison (Katherine Heigl) was an up-and-coming television reporter; in my book, I was an up-and-coming newspaper reporter." In response, Apatow says, ""The book Knocked Up is very different than the film Knocked Up. "The book is about a woman who gets pregnant by the fiance that she loves on the night of her engagement party. The film is a very different story; the film is about a one-night stand between a pot-smoking slacker and an ambitious young woman that leads to a pregnancy and their attempts to get to know each other. "Anyone who reads the book and sees the movie will instantly know that they are two very different stories about a common experience." The trial is set to begin in March 2008.