Lawsuit for disaster flick

The man behind a Hollywood blockbuster about global warming is being sued by a university professor who claims he stole the plot of his novel.

Roland Emmerich, German-born director of The Day After Tomorrow, will face a court in Cologne this week accused of plagiarising key elements of the littleknown science-fiction book Polar Day 9.

Harvard-based Ubaldo DiBenedetto published the novel in 1993 using the pen name Kyle Donner.

Like the movie starring Dennis Quaid, Polar Day 9 is concerned with the threat of an impending ice age, starting with the shearing-off of a gigantic ice shelf and culminating with a city sunk under a gigantic tidal wave.

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