 The films creators were sued in 2003 by Martin Poll (qv) and  Larry Cohen (I) (qv). Poll and Cohen claimed that they had pitched  a similar idea to Fox between 1993 and 1996, under the title Cast  of Characters. They alleged that Fox hired screenwriters to adapt  Alan Moores comic long before it was finished, and instead used  ideas from their screenplay to make up the story. The case was  settled out of court.