« Movie Scribe Seeks Piece of Pirates’ Booty | Main | The Daily Memo -7/13/06 »
What a wookie!
Mark Burnett is being sued in connection with his latest reality show endeavor, “Rock Star: Supernova,” which focuses on the search for a singer to front the “new” band Supernova. Supernova is a manufactured band made up of getting-up-there-in-the-years rockers Tommy Lee (of Motley Crue and stolen porn tape fame), Jason Newsted (formerly of Metallica) and Gilby Clark (of Guns n’ Roses, back when Axl took less than 15 years to put an album out). Trouble is, there’s already a band out there using the moniker “Supernova.” Based out of the O.C., this original Supernova has been around since 1989 and has released four albums (with a fifth on the way). They’re tweaked about Burnett pinching their name for the show’s band and are now suing to: (1) prevent Burnett from getting a trademark on the name; and (2) make him acknowledge that they’re not connected to the show in any way.
Of course, one might understand why Burnett had not heard of them, considering the closest thing to any substantial success for them has been the inclusion of the wonderful “Chewbacca” track on the Clerk’s soundtrack. And having once dated someone who had a song appear in a Kevin Smith flick, I can tell you first hand that the “success” that comes along with such an honor is, to put it kindly, negligible.
