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Zhou Shaomou, author of the Chinese online novel Tale of the Blue Crows, is suing the creator of the movie Avatar, James Cameron, claiming that Cameron stole ideas from Zhou’s novel.

Zhou’s novel is about six astronauts that travel to a distant planet inhabited by blue people. “I wrote in my novel that their space journey took them six years but in Cameron’s movie the journey takes them five years, nine months and 22 days. I was shocked when I first saw that. It is too close.” Many are criticizing Zhou for thinking that such a big-shot producer like Cameron would steal his ideas. To this he replied, “Why not?”

I think that the last statement really exemplifies what this is really all about: money. People are just trying to get their “fair share” of this movie. Let’s face it people: Just because your story has blue people in it, doesn’t mean that Cameron stole your ideas.

Source: inmovies


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Why would James Cameron even do that? Probably just a coincidence


^ It really isn’t interesting at all.


^ Haha, it’s so common nowadays that I don’t even think it’s interesting anymore.


wow! its really interesting how people would go just for money D:


Not the greatest reason to sue someone.


harmonixia - 03/12/10 6:19 pm

This is ridiculous. If the only part of the novel that contains similarities with the movie is traveling to another planet, blue people, and...an unimportant time span, uhhh...no, it’s not called plagiarism/stealing ideas/whatever.

The people that created the Smurfs should sue. Gahahahahahaha.


^ahahaa that song was great lol
but really people nowadays are so selfish and just want money...its ridiculous


im blue daba dee daba dai~


This is ridiculous. If the only part of the novel that contains similarities with the movie is traveling to another planet, blue people, and...an unimportant time span, uhhh...no, it’s not called plagiarism/stealing ideas/whatever.



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