James Cameron Sued By Author For 'Stealing' Idea For 'Avatar'

Monsters and Critics:

James Cameron is being sued by an author who claims the Hollywood director stole her idea for Avatar.

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[Oleg1]

12:24 PM on 05/22/2010

Lawrence of Arabia, becomes a shaman, reads a few Zen stories and watches Mononoke in his SUV on his way to the Tree-Huggers Convention. Held in Disney World.

[brettrobbins]

05:40 AM on 05/21/2010

Might as well initiate a class-action suit against Cameron for writing in English.

[LiberalGod]

03:05 AM on 05/21/2010

James Cameron should win the nobel peace prize for elevating human consciousness

[SF TKF]

05:15 PM on 05/20/2010

It's Pocahontas in Space. What's there to steal?

[Radial]

07:05 AM on 05/21/2010

You forgot to add Ferngully...Pocahontas Meets Ferngully in Space...

[Caru]

11:16 AM on 05/21/2010

Pocahontas meets Ferngully meets the Matrix IN SPACE.

[JoJoRae]

03:09 PM on 05/23/2010

OMG I LOVED Ferngully

[Danlantic]

05:15 PM on 05/20/2010

I liked Avatar. I liked it almost as much as I liked it when it was called Dances with Wolves.

Let me whisper it, "space opera". Turning a western into a scifi story.

That reminds me of something. In a scifi anthology about 40 years ago there was a story about a planet that a crude machismo planet had been given as a colony. The only thing that stood in their way of making it like home was a kind of tree where all the roots communicated and all life forms were really part of it. There were sort of butterflies and birds but they were really a kind of seed. There was a failed warrior/hunter who fell in love with the biologist who had been hired to help exterminate the life of the planet. She turned on them set the interlocking tree loose in the secured area. It had adapted to all the herbicides so it was running riot. The macho goons ordered her and the wimp stripped naked and thrown out in the wilderness. (That was the traditional death sentence on their planet.) Well, the universal life form wiped out the macho guys or drove them from the planet and the 2 lovers lived happily forever in the woods. Sound familiar?

"The story belongs not to him who tells it first but to him who tells it best."
------Geoffrey Chaucer answering charges about his remakes such as Troilus and Cressida.

[ChrisR]

12:57 PM on 05/21/2010

I liked Dances with Wolves. I liked it almost as much as I liked it when it was called Dune.

Okay, who's next?

[yesyesyes]

03:35 PM on 05/20/2010

Roger Dean Pics....

[producedby]

02:50 PM on 05/20/2010

What, John Davis came back from the dead and is suing?

[EngineerBill]

03:10 PM on 05/20/2010

Nice comment.

http://www.antiqbook.com/books/asearch.phtml?author=John%20Davis