Warner Bros. is threatening Bollywood filmmakers with a copyright lawsuit if they develop a remake of "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button."

According to reports last month, Bollywood actors Akshay Kumar and Aishwarya Rai would star in a film titled "Action Replay," wherein a man ages in reverse, just like the title character in the Hollywood film starring Brad Pitt. The Indian version has a possible release date in November.

Warner has placed advertisements in the Times of India and other papers stating that the film studio is the joint author and co-owner of the copyright of the film, Agence France-Presse reports.

According to the public notice, a lawsuit will be filed against anyone who would produced a film "either in English or Hindi or other language, having a similar script, screenplay or storyline or character sketches or interplay of characters or sequence of events."

"Benjamin Button," which was inspired by the 1921 F. Scott Fitzgerald short story, starred Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett and was released in December last year. It went on to earn thirteen Academy Award nods, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Pitt. It won three Oscars for Art Direction, Makeup, and Visual Effects.