"Avatar" apparently couldn't stay away from controversy. After "Delgo" filmmakers threatened to sue for stealing their story ideas earlier, the upcoming sci-fi movie has been slammed with a rip-off report. I09 has recently reported that there are too many similarities between this James Cameron's feature project and a 1957 novella by Poul Anderson entitled "Call Me Joe".
Claiming to have been tipped by its reader, the site pointed out on the similarities from the wheel-chair bound lead character to the artificial created body. "Like Avatar, Call Me Joe centers on a paraplegic - Ed Anglesey - who telepathically connects with an artificially created life form in order to explore a harsh planet (in this case, Jupiter)," it began explaining.
"Anglesey, like Avatar's Jake Sully, revels in the freedom and strength of his artificial created body," the site went on detailing, "battles predators on the surface of Jupiter, and gradually goes native as he spends more time connected to his artificial body."
Soon after the release of the film's teaser trailer in August, "Avatar" was hit with a potential lawsuit from Fathom Studios after many pointed out similarities of the movie with "Delgo". Of it, a spokesperson for the studio said, "From what we have seen, we are amazed by the visual similarities between the two films and we are reviewing what legal options may be available to us."
"Avatar" is a live action movie directed, co-produced and written also by the "Titanic" helmer James Cameron. It lines up Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, Sigourney Weaver as botanist Dr. Grace Augustine, Stephen Lang as Marine Corps Colonel Quaritch, Zoe Saldana as Neytiri, Michelle Rodriguez as retired Marine pilot Trudy Chacon, and many others.
This 20th Century Fox film follows an paraplegic ex-marine as he is thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival. It is set to hit the U.S. theaters on December 18.
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Sorry, but I really think Avatar was a rip off of the disney movie atlantis :P
Could this movie get any more generic?
When I watch clips of this shit, all I can see is actors who never set foot outside a studio, looking at a green screen and giving the facial expressions they deep appropriate. No matter what, though, I can't get past the fact that every part of every scene is totally fake and therefore less credible than a movie like Dances with Wolves, who actually put in effort and shot in the real world. Fuck you all, in the asses, you fucking faggot fanboys. Fuck you.
OMG!!!!1 I <3 THis MOvie!!@ I wish i was in this movie! the whole idea where that guy betrays his race! Best idea ever!!!1@ Been done a dozen times, silly child. By the way, ever notice that the real US military never deserts to the Iraqi people to help them gain their freedom? Nope, they just kill them and take their natural resources, sort of like avatar, minus the hero guy. No wonder you pathetic kids watch fantasy shit, reality is cold and hard.
Wolfgang - No. Those movies came out within the same time frames. Dances with wolves was over FIFTEEN years ago, as was fern gully, and the book Call me Joe was fucking 50+ years ago. The other ones you mentioned are just like "Volcano" and "Dante's Peak", hollywood was going through a disaster movie craze at that time, with a side of non-gore family horror. I think that's a totally different situation since those movies are just similar and don't actually share plots, unlike Avatar and any of 10 things it undeniably ripped off.
Avatar is a complete rip off of a number of things, so you basically payed for special effects. You payed to see shit we all knew could be done already. Oh, and Call me Joe sold a ton of copies, and Dances with Wolves did great too... so I don't think you can weasel out of this one just because ONE movie that avatar ripped off, flopped. You still have to deal with the fact that the idea is completely unoriginal down to every detail, and has been done 100 times. I'd say you fan boys are the ones with no life. Stick up for Cameron all you want, guess how original his last big movie was..... "TITANIC". HAHA, not only was it not his original creation, it had also been done at least 3 other times since the actual titanic. Ha, case closed.
OMG!!!!1 I <3 THis MOvie!!@ I wish i was in this movie! the whole idea where that guy betrays his race! Best idea ever!!!1@
As was stated b4, if no one has ever heard of it, who cares, and everyone is ripping everyone off. Personally, I had never heard of "dances with wolves" or any of those other tittles (except pocahantas) so I really didnt care. It was an awesome movie, and I was depressed when I went home because I wasn't in the movie anymore. So yeah. It was kick butt.
it rips off pocahontis too. LOL
how about dances with wolves?
Foster is actually a ghost writer for Cameron. He probably got paid for his "Midworld" contribution. He also wrote Alien if you recall. So yeah, probably no lawsuits there.
Most of the American people never saw the famous Japanese movie Princess Mononoke. Avatar copied everything from Princess Mononke.
Disny's pocohantis ? any one
Guys it was a good movie. Those of you that said it sucked have no life at all.
wopty doo! it ripped off crap no ones ever heard. look its a great movie and to me its like saying "oh you cant do that some guy published a book only 3 people in the world read with that same line in there". i never heard of Dildo or whatever it is. Get over it Avatars amazing
simpsons did it.
If Avatar ripped anything off, they did it better.
Avatar has also rip-off matrix
Alan Dean Foster's Midworld 1975. I think "borrowed" is a loose term for Avatar. Definitely a visually stunning movie, but give credit where it is due. Six legged mounts that individuals emfoil? Home tree? Sky people? The scene where a seed of the soul tree is place in the grave of a native? I watched all the credits and have read some of the online stuff. Cameron should admit where the entire planet idea came from and pay homage (as well as revenue) to one of the best scifi writers of all time. May be he could change the name Pandora to Midworld.
avatar just sucks, bad, poor, not good etc etc
Hey its simalar to Ferngulla too. But there are no orignal ideas anymore. Everyone is ripping off someone.
I blame Obama
Avatar also ripped off FernGully.
This is ridiculous. The creators of "Terra" (The Battle For Terra), should sue as well. Listen, Delga was a mistake. Should never have happened. You should not be compensated for a story you failed to make. Deal with the expenses and do a better job next time. There are many similarities between Rounders and Poolhall Junkies, but I never heard any complaints. I'm sure other people can come up with better examples (Six Sense and Stir of Echoes, Armageddon and Deep Impact, etc.).