Editing Small Soldiers (section)

===Lawsuit===
In 2000, filmmaker Gregory P. Grant filed a suit against [[Steven Spielberg]], [[DreamWorks Pictures]] and [[Universal Pictures]], alleging that they had infringed on the copyright of his 1990 short film ''Ode to GI Joe''. Grant claimed that he had met with [[Amblin Entertainment]] in 1991 to discuss the potential to expand his short film into a full feature. The project went as far as commissioning a treatment from Grant and a 16mm copy of the short film at Spielberg's request but, according to Grant, Amblin dropped the project. However, Grant added that Amblin pushed another film, at the time titled ''Toy Soldiers'', into development nearly a month after Grant's project was passed on. Grant's attorneys stressed that several scenes and ideas from ''Small Soldiers'' were too similar and taken outright from Grant's short film and treatment.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/09/news.stevenspielberg|title=Spielberg sued over Small Soldiers|first=Betsy|last=Reed|date=May 9, 2000|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=October 4, 2023|url-status=live|archive-date=October 5, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231005011313/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2000/may/09/news.stevenspielberg}}</ref>