![]() Murray sends out a public call to verbose arms, asking the public for input on which words they use, and how and where they came from. Though Murray ensures his publisher an OED can be completed in seven years (it took over 40, and only the third edition is currently being compiled), he and his assistants quickly fall behind schedule and he comes up with a radical plan to get the project back on track: dictionary by democracy. ![]() Oxford’s elitist brain trust buckles under Furnivall’s barrage of 50-cent words and almost immediately starts plotting Murray’s removal. If that weren’t enough, Safinia - writer-producer on Kelsey Grammer’s Starz series Boss and co-writer on Gibson’s Apocalypto - lost a summary judgment from a California judge in March over what would have been his feature directorial debut.ĭictionary founder Frederick Furnivall (Steve Coogan) advocates that James Murray (Gibson), a self-educated Scottish linguist and scholar, take over the editorship of the university’s languishing white whale. ![]() The legal wrangling finally ended when a settlement was reached in April 2019. The long production process stalled when Gibson’s Icon Productions and Voltage Pictures sued and countersued each other 2017 in a dispute over creative decision-making and accusations of hijacking the film. ![]()
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