It’s been two years since Avatar premiered in theaters, but now an unhappy sci-fi fan is claiming director James Cameron’s movie was not his original idea. E! News reported one of Cameron’s former employees is claiming he came up with the film’s "environmentally themed 3-D epic about a corporation's colonization and plundering of a distant moon's lush and wondrous natural setting” plotline and is now suing the director.
New York Daily News reported the lawsuit was filed in L.A. County Superior Court Friday by Eric Ryder, who claims he originated the plot in a film called KRZ 2068, which he says he pitched to Cameron’s production company in 1999. He also claims the "self-contained robotic exterior suits which house a single human operator" worn by Stephen Lang in the film was his idea. However, Cameron has previously said that he came up with his movie’s plot in the early ‘90s, but couldn’t work on it until the 2000s because the special-effects technology was unavailable.
He’s also said that he made the film because the environmental issues behind it 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?'” Wonder why it took Ryder so long to file the suit.
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