Donald Sutherland ’s family is blocking the release of the late actor’s “utterly unpredictable” memoir — and the book’s publisher is now demanding the return of its hefty $400,000 advance.

Penguin Random House has sued McNichol Pictures Inc. — the Florida-based production company Sutherland founded in 2012 — for failing to deliver the completed manuscript for “Made Up, But Still True,” in Manhattan federal court.

Before Kiefer Sutherland’s father died from prostate cancer in his Miami home on June 20, 2024, a draft copy of the memoir was submitted to the Crown Publishing Group, a Penguin Random House subsidiary, according to the breach of contract suit.

Crown issued a press release on March 27, 2024, announcing it was taking pre-orders for the upcoming memoir, which was originally sl

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