A Randolph man has been charged with defrauding DreamWorks by falsely claiming he created Kung Fu Panda. 

 

Jayme Gordon, 51, claimed the company stole his characters and story for the animated movie. 

 

According to the indictment, Gordon saw the Kung Fu Panda trailer in early 2008 and revised his own "Panda Power" drawings to make them more similar to the DreamWorks pandas. Gordon filed a copy infringement suit against the company in 2011 and asked that DreamWorks pay him $12 million to settle, a proposal which DreamWorks rejected.

 

Gordon is accused of lying about his drawings and the dates of which they were produced. According to the indictment, some of Gordon's sketches, which he claimed were from 1993 and 1994, were copied from a Disney Lion King coloring book from 1996. 

 

After being confronted with the coloring book drawings, Gordon dismissed his suit. By the time the suit was dismissed, DreamWorks had spent more than two years and $3 million on the case.

 

Gordon is due in court at 1:30 p.m. on Monday. He has been charged with four counts of wire fraud and three counts of perjury.