James Cameron sued by second aspiring screenwriter over idea for ‘Avatar’
Wednesday, December 21, 2011Omoba
Prepare for “Avatar: Lawsuit,” the sequel.
Another aspiring screewnriter is suing James Cameron, claiming the writer-director of the biggest box office grosser of all time stole his idea for the sci-fi movie, TMZ.com reported.
Bryant Moore is seeking $1.5 billion in actual damages and another $1 billion in punitive damages in his lawsuit against Cameron’s production company and 20th Century Fox, the studio behind “Avatar.”
Moore contends that he first came up with ideas that surfaced in “Avatar” in a pair of his own screenplays, “Aquatica” and “Descendants: The Pollination,” including “bioluminescent flora/plant life, unbreathable atmospheres, matriarch support of hero vs. heroine, spiritual connections to environment and reincarnation, appearance of mist in scene, sunlight to moonlight, crackling from gargantuan foliage, blue skin/green skin and battle scene on limbs/branches,” according to the gossip web site.
The suit comes just weeks after screenwriter, Eric Ryder, sued Cameron in Los Angeles County, claiming it was HIS screenplay, entitled “KRZ 2068” that formed the basis for “Avatar” — after pitching it unsuccessfully to Cameron’s production company in 1999.
Cameron has said previously that he came up with the idea for the environmental parable behind “Avatar” in the early ‘90s but had to wait for the special-effects technology to catch up to be able to film it.
“I certainly feel a personal sense of responsibility because I made a movie on these issues,” Cameron told the Daily News in 2010. “Why? Because they were personally important to me. It’s not like the studio said, ‘Jim we want you to make a movie about the environment.’ No. ...They said, ‘We really like the big epic science fiction story, but is there any way we can get this tree-hugging crap out of it?
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