Producers prevail in 'Last Samurai' suit LOS ANGELES, April 7 (UPI) -- A Los Angeles jury ruled the producers of the 2003 Tom Cruise movie "The Last Samurai" did not steal the story from two scriptwriters. Brothers Aaron and Matthew Benay failed to convince the federal-court jurors that they had submitted a script to Bedford Falls, a production company run by the producers, and were cut out as their work was used as the basis of "Samurai." The Hollywood Reporter said the jury agreed with the contention of producers Ed Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz that they had never heard of the Benay script until their own samurai project was under way. The Benay brothers contended their agent had orally pitched the project by telephone to an executive at Bedford Falls in 2000, which amounted to an implied contract. But since the jury was not convinced the phone pitch ever took place, the dispute over an implied contract became moot, The Reporter said.