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Avatar's Originality Questioned AgainBy Eric Eisenberg: 2009-10-27 12:11:31
It's not uncommon for people to try and make some scratch off of a successful film. In late 2006, Borat was an unexpected smash hit at the box office, but due to its documentary filming style, floodgates were opened that allowed just about anyone involved a way to sue the makers of the film (though every case has been dismissed). Now, with James Cameron's Avatar being spun as a movie that will revolutionize filmmaking, people have already begun questioning its originality, with the release date still two months away.
The makers of Delgo (a.k.a the most unsuccessful film ever made) have already threatened a lawsuit and now the writers over at Io9 have drawn comparisons to "Call me Joe," a short science-fiction story written by Poul Anderson in 1957. While the Delgo accusation is just nonsense, Cameron might have some questions to answer about this one. In the story, a paraplegic man is telepathically linked with an artificial life form so that he can better traverse the planet of Jupiter. Just to recap, Avatar is the story of a paraplegic man who is telepathically linked with an artificial life form so that he can better traverse the planet of Pandora. Uh oh. When the first trailer for Avatar showed up online and in theaters back in August, Fathom Studios no doubt saw it as a way to get some attention and possibly make back some of the $40 million that they lost on their bomb. The Poul Anderson story, on the other hand, carries water simply from the fact that it wasn't the copyright holders that brought it to our attention. Should this accusation be legitimate, what does it mean for the film and its writing credits? Nothing I have read about the novelette has indicated a plotline that involves humans fighting a war against the planet's indigenous people, but it probably wouldn't be the worst idea for Cameron or 20th Century Fox to address the issue before a bigger deal is made out of it. Knowing Fox, however, this is probably going to get even messier before it gets straightened out.
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