Ashton Kutcher may not be the only person to dislike the DMV, but he appears to be the only one suing the state of California for $1.4 million over a claim that the Department of Motor Vehicles backed out of a reality television show deal with his production company, Katalyst Media.
TMZ reports that in the lawsuit, Kutcher's company -- credited with producing hit television series like "Punk'd" and "Beauty and the Geek" -- claims it had a written agreement with the California Department of Motor Vehicles in 2010. The agency allegedly agreed to participate in a reality show. Kutcher had hoped that the show would "capture the variously humorous, emotional, dramatic, moving, humanizing and entertaining situations that arise on a daily basis" at the DMV.
More specifically, Katalyst claims that the agreement stated that shooting would begin in the summer of 2011 and continue through the fall. The production company planned to put together four episodes, with six more episodes being optional depending on the show's success.
Yet, Katalyst claims that the DMV sent a 5-sentence letter which attempted to get the DMV out of the deal, after the production company had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars preparing for the show. According to the suit, the individual who wrote the letter said the project wouldn't be in the "best interests" of the DMV.
Kutcher is currently filming a biopic about Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple who passed away last year.
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