The fifty-four individual Plaintiffs (the “Lost Boys”) are Southern Sudanese refugees and residents of the state of Georgia fleeing genocidal activity occurring during the Second Sudanese Civil War. As repeated militia raids on Southern Sudanese villages made militia tactics more predictable, the Lost Boys and others were instructed to flee their villages at the first signs of attack. The Lost Boys and others walked for months through the wilderness before reaching refugee camps in Ethiopia and Kenya, experiencing many trials and tribulations, often unique to each Lost Boy. The Lost Boys and thousands of others were granted asylum and residency in the United States, and the Lost Boys settled in and around Atlanta, Georgia. As part of their effort to deliver aid to South Sudan, the Lost Boys created Plaintiff Foundation for Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan, Inc. (the “Foundation”). In 2002, some plaintiffs met Robert “Bobby” Newmyer, a film producer and partner at Defendant Outlaw Productions. When they told Newmyer about some of their experiences prior to arriving in the United States, Newmyer expressed interest in making their stories into a feature film and agreed to travel to Atlanta to meet with them. Newmyer and Outlaw recruited Nagle, a screenwriter, to write the script of a screenplay incorporating “real, personal and emotional details” of the Lost Boys’ stories “otherwise unavailable to the public at large.”
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