[justlurking]

tough call. evidently, he told letterman, "i'm giving you first crack at this. if you don't buy it for 2 million, i'll go to another company and sell it."

If he said that, then it probably meets the criteria for extortion. I don't know the exact law in New York, but I suspect that rises to the level of "threatening harm or embarrassment".

[NEMDF]

I don’t know if that would fly (extortion) if the so-called screenplay used purely fictional names, etc. ??