14 DAY TRIAL // James Cameron’s “Avatar” came out in December 2009 but, to this day, it is still the highest grossing movie of all times, while also being considered a landmark for 3D cinematography. A new lawsuit claims the story is a shameless rip-off.
Lawsuits to claim that Cameron stole from some artist or another are a dime a dozen, with the director himself explaining that he was expecting them when he saw how successful the movie was.
Roger Dean is doing the same, WENN reports.
“Dean, who has designed album covers for bands including Yes and Asia, accused Cameron of ‘willful and deliberate copying, dissemination and exploitation’ of his imagery and claims the Oscar winner ‘studied and referenced his art in preparation for the film’,” the report says.
“The similarities of each such work are substantial, continuing, and direct so as to rule out any accidental copying or similarity in scenes common to the genre,” the lawsuit argues.
Cameron, who also wrote the script for “Avatar” and spent over a decade working on the project, did not immediately respond to the allegations made in the suit.