'Avatar' Sued with Plagiarism Allegation

Again, box office movie 'Avatar' sued to court. A novelist from San Diego doubt the originality of the story 'Avatar', written by James Cameron. He claims the story of 'Avatar' lifted from the novel that he wrote “Sheila the Warrior: The Damned “.

Kelly Van, novelist, had filed a lawsuit in California court against James Cameron, Fox, and film producers of Avatar. As reported by Reuters, Thursday (05/20/2010), Kelly sued Cameron cs violate copyright books which he published in 2003.

Kelly still can not indicate how the filmmaker was able to trace the story of his novels. But affirmed, the stories 'Avatar' truly exactly the same as the novel of Kelly. From the start characters, settings, storyline, visual effects, scenes, concepts, and even emotional elements.

Sheila character in the novel of Kelly's tells about a woman who traveled to the planet is incredibly beautiful, peaceful, and a good ecosystem. He made a pact with a group of people who intend to destroy the planet if they no longer can control their mineral on the planet.

However, Sheila then fell in love with the local population. This story certainly sounds very familiar with the 'Avatar'. However, Kelly was awaiting a decision and the maximum compensation according to law.

Previously, not only Kelly was a protest the story of Cameron's originality, he was one of the few people who also questioned the authenticity of the story 'Avatar'.

Author from China, Zhou Shaomou, eg, also has sued Cameron with similar accusations. He claimed the plot of the film “Avatar” almost similar to the story of science fiction books he wrote, 'Tale of the Blue Crows', which is published online in 1997.

'Avatar 2', The Adventures of Jake Sully & Neytiri Move to Bottom of Sea

Despite not winning an Oscar, a sequel to the movie 'Avatar' still awaited. 'Avatar 2' promises more exciting and imaginative. The Adventures of Jake Sully and Neytiri no longer on the mainland Pandora Planet, but will move to the sea. Wow!

Pandora Ocean will be the focus setting film director James Cameron is. James believes the sequel to 'Avatar' will bring big profits.

The focus of the sequel to 'Avatar' is to create an environment that is different from the first film. "I will focus on the sea, with so much richness and diversity, certainly admirable and imaginative," James said as quoted by contactmusic, Wednesday (21/4/2010).

Central figure 'Avatar', Jake Sully is a former Marine who was his legs completely paralyzed because of severe injuries in a battle on earth. Jake had a hope of recovery by following the Avatar program. Through this program, Jake is sent to the planet Pandora with 'new body'. He then met Neytiri, daughter of the ruler planet Pandora. Unfortunately later planet Pandora destroyed.

James has a big challenge in the sequel to 'Avatar'. The challenge is not just about a story that surely must be more interesting. But he also made savings in many ways. Budget and time to the sequel film that toss Sam Worthington is should be trimmed out.

"If it can budget and time process of making half of the previous films. It may be difficult, perhaps we could only reduce up to 25 percent," said James.