An unreleased Nicolas Cage WWII spy film lost its screening drive inside a Netflix office, and the producers want $105 million for it. Writer-producer Simon Afram and Op-Fortitude Ltd. sued Netflix, Inc. in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (complaint filed late July 2026), alleging conversion and related contract claims after an unencrypted Digital Cinema Package of Fortitude vanished from desks at Sunset Bronson Studios.
This is not a piracy-leak post with a torrent link. As of the filing, the producers say the film still had no distributor attached, and reporting around the case has not pointed to a public leak. The fight is about custody, notice, and what a missing master does to a first-to-market sales campaign.
What the complaint says happened
According to the federal complaint:
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Dec. 9, 2025 | Op-Fortitude pitches Netflix with promo materials and a sizzle reel |
| June 11, 2026 | Netflix is told worldwide rights are still available and “NOBODY has seen it yet,” then asks to screen |
| June 15, 2026 | Associate producer **Daniel Haido** hand-delivers an **unencrypted DCP** to Sunset Bronson (1455 N. Van Ness Ave.) |
| ~June 16, 2026 | Netflix screens the cut |
| June 25, 2026 | Netflix’s **Sean Berney** emails that drives were stolen from office desks |
Haido’s same-day written instruction after delivery, as quoted in the complaint: the DCP is unencrypted, so delete the files after the screening and call when the drive is ready for pickup.
Ten days later, Berney’s email (also in the filing) includes the line that made this a headline:
This is a first for us… Unfortunately, someone stole a good amount of drives from our office desks this past week. We’ve been working through this with our security teams to no luck. Our piracy teams are on high alert with the breach and will monitor.
