“The movie poster has my lyrics changed to read…. “No one ever asked me about using my song this way, or even about the meaning of Proud Mary,” he wrote. “They simply picked the title and wrote a completely fictitious story around it.” His main ideological issue with it does not seem to be about any literal use of his music, but mainly from the appropriation of one of the song’s central lyrics in the film’s advertising. “This movie has nothing to do with me, or my song,” he wrote. Yesterday, Fogerty posted a statement about the film, which he says he has not seen. The Ike and Tina Turner version, notably, is also used in previews for the film. He says he was not asked by the filmmakers about his band’s hit, which also subsequently became a smash and signature song for Ike and Tina Turner, being used as the film’s title. The Creedence Clearwater Revival founder, despite once having been in court for plagiarizing himself, is taking issue with the way his intellectual property is being used, though there is no indication that he is attempting to take legal action. Henson in the titular role: a Boston assassin named Mary Goodwin. It seems John Fogerty is not looking forward to the release of Proud Mary, the upcoming Babak-Najafi-directed thriller starring Taraji P.