A screenwriter alleges that the premise of the John Wick franchise was lifted from his original work. Jeffery Ryan Wicker has sued writer Derek Kolstad, who wrote the screenplays for John Wick and John Wick: Chapter 2 , along with the films’ production studios Thunder Road Film Productions and Lionsgate Entertainment. In court documents read by Complex, Wicker alleges that Kolstad’s screenplay, titled Scorn , copied elements of his screenplay Blood for Escobar . Per the complaint, Blood for Escobar seems to allegedly have gotten connected to the makers of John Wick via Mike Goldberg and Josh Adler, an entertainment management duo, who Kolstad credits for launching his career. Wicker says he submitted Blood for Escobar to a screenplay contest that Goldberg was judging. Wicker believes that Goldberg and Adler shared a copy of Blood for Escobar with Kolstad to write Scorn , and allegedly derived the work into building the character of John Wick.…