EXCLUSIVE : Louis Theroux ’s Mindhouse Productions has been sued by a filmmaker behind 1995’s Alien Autopsy amid production on a Sky series about the extraterrestrial hoax.

Mindhouse is working with BAFTA-winning director John Dower ( Lockerbie ) on a documentary about Alien Autopsy , which became an international sensation by purporting to depict hazmat-suited officials dissecting the corpse of an alien recovered from a crash site near Roswell.

Spyros Melaris, who is credited with directing Alien Autopsy , has launched legal action against Mindhouse, filing a complaint at England’s Intellectual Property Enterprise Court.

The precise details of his claim are unclear, but in a Facebook post, he has complained about “false attribution, copyright infringement, and misrepre

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