Radiohead star Jonny Greenwood has demanded the removal of his music from Melania Trump’s controversial Amazon documentary.
The musician and director Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for a segment of music from their 2017 film Phantom Thread to be taken out of the “flop” film titled Melania.
Greenwood, who composed the score for the film starring Daniel Day-Lewis, claimed the usage of the music was a breach of his composer agreement.
“It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary,” Greenwood and Anderson’s representatives said in a joint statement obtained by Variety.
His attorneys claimed Greenwood does not own the copyright in the score, however the film’s distributor, Universal, “failed to consult Jonny on this third-party use, which is a breach of his composer agreement.”
The statement went on: “As a result, Jonny and Paul Thomas Anderson have asked for it to be removed from the documentary.”
The film includes a long segment from Barbara Rose, a song the Radiohead guitarist composed for it.
Melania follows the POTUS’ wife in the 20 days leading up to her husband Donald Trump’s second term re-election.
In it, she meets with stylists, political allies and interior designers before supporting Trump at his swearing-in ceremony.
It grossed around $7,000,000 (£5,000,000) in North America in its opening box office weekend, with a further $2.5million (£1.8million) the following weekend.
Although the film has brought in better numbers than expected, it is still unlikely to recoup the $40 million Amazon MGM paid for it to be made.
Amazon refused to share the film with the press ahead of its release. It reportedly spent $35 million in marketing the project.
Melania has received a slew of bad press over the documentary.
As she and a select group of Trump administration officials gathered in the White House for a sneak preview screening, Rolling Stone was dropping an excoriating behind-the-scenes feature which described the entire production process as “chaos”.
Elsewhere, UK cinema chain Vue admitted that sales had been “soft”.
