Avatar Sequel

Avatar Sequel, Avatar star Sam Worthington has said James Cameron is concentrating on making the sequel outdo the original, which was the highest-grossing film of all time. The Australian actor, who played the lead male role in the blockbuster, has reportedly signed up for Avatar 2 but says there is no set date for production to start.

“We’ve talked about the sequel but Jim does what he wants to do,” Worthington said, referring to Cameron. “That’s the thing. He’ll do the sequel when it’s a challenge for him. He doesn’t have to do it for the money and he’s not going to be told what to do. “And when he does it, it’s exciting for an audience. That’s who he makes movies for.

“I think he’s kind of waiting and digesting the movie so he can unleash a movie that takes Avatar and explodes it and expands it even better.” Cameron announced there would be two sequels to the Oscar-winning film in 2010. In an interview he gave some idea of what his audience can expect when the films eventually make it on to the big screen.

“Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment – a different setting within Pandora,” he said. “And I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rainforest. “I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.”

James Cameron Sued Again

James Cameron Sued Again, The characters and story of ‘Avatar,’ above, have spurred claims by screenwriters who say their work was unfairly used by the blockbuster film’s writer and director, James Cameron.
The California court system is becoming a Pandora’s box full of lawsuits against James Cameron over “Avatar.”

The latest to jump on the bandwagon is Elijah Schkeiban, according to the Hollywood Reporter, who claims in court papers filed Monday that the highest-grossing movie in history is a rip-off of his “Bats & Butterflies,” a sci-fi novel and WGA-registered script that he wrote in the late ’80s.

In “Bats & Butterflies,” an injured protagonist heads to the forest of a far-flung planet where he bonds with indigenous humanoids and joins the battle between the two species of the title, according to the trade publication.

Schkeiban joins a line of other aspiring screenwriters suing Cameron to claim “Avatar” was all their idea.

In December, Bryant Moore filed a suit seeking $1.5 billion in actual damages and another $1 billion in punitive damages in his lawsuit against Cameron’s production company and 20th Century Fox, the studio behind “Avatar.”

Moore contends that he first came up with ideas that surfaced in “Avatar” in a pair of his own screenplays, “Aquatica” and “Descendants: The Pollination,” including “bioluminescent flora/plant life, unbreathable atmospheres, matriarch support of hero vs. heroine, spiritual connections to environment and reincarnation, appearance of mist in scene, sunlight to moonlight, crackling from gargantuan foliage, blue skin/green skin and battle scene on limbs/branches,” TMZ reported at the time of the filing.

That suit came just weeks after screenwriter Eric Ryder sued Cameron in Los Angeles County, claiming it actually was his screenplay, entitled “KRZ 2068” that formed the basis for “Avatar” – after pitching it unsuccessfully to Cameron’s production company in 1999.

Cameron has said previously that he came up with the idea for the environmental parable behind “Avatar” in the early ’90s, but had to wait for special-effects technology to catch up to be able to film it.

“I certainly feel a personal sense of responsibility because I made a movie on these issues,” Cameron told the Daily News in 2010. “Why? Because they 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?’ “