Joey Ramone’s brother is filing a countersuit against Johnny Ramone’s widow, claiming her efforts to stop a Netflix film about the punk legends are “baseless and flimsy.”
In January, Linda Cummings-Ramone sued Mickey Leigh claiming he “covertly” developed an “unauthorized” biopic on the Ramones.
Cummings-Ramone asserted that any “authoritative story of the Ramones” would require her approval.
Leigh and his lawyers slammed Cummings-Ramone’s claims, while also insisting she already signed-off on a film several years ago.
The suit claims Cummings-Ramone is trying to “rewrite her role in the history of the Ramones, and win a popularity contest in which, in her mind, she takes over the legacy of a band of which she never was a member and had nothing to do with creatively.”
Leigh claims Cummings-Ramone already granted her approval to a film based on his book ‘I Slept With Joey Ramone’ in 2006.
He added that the planned movie focusses on his brother and is “not intended to be a ‘Ramones movie’ or a Ramones biopic.”