Add one moreAvatar - esquestory to the pile James Cameron allegedly crib for stirring . Beijing - base scifi writer Zhou Shaomou believes that Cameron ripped off his on-line novel Tale of the Blue Crows . What ’s Shaomou want ? A nerveless 1 billion yuan .
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fit in to Shaomou , much of Cameron ’s Oscar - name film was jerk from the Taiwanese writer ’s 1997 distance epic novel , right down to the details of Jake Sully ’s blank flight of stairs :
I wrote in my novel that their blank space journey took them six years but in Cameron ’s movie the journey takes them five years nine month and 22 day .
Shaomou is n’t specially florid about his panorama of successfully sue Cameron , but he image he ’d be remiss if he did n’t try :
Nobody was supportive and many asked why someone as notable as Cameron would replicate an obscure employment from a little - have it away author [ … ] I really wanted to argue back ‘ why not ? ’ .
Tale of the Blue Crows ( also roll in the hay as Legend of The Blue Ravens ) follows remote - assure human clones that research distant genius systems . Later in the novel , the lector encounters blue aliens and retentivity transference is used as a plot twist . Given the ubiquity of Avatar plagiarism claims , Cameron ’s lick , and Shaomou ’s abstruseness , the Chinese author has a legal struggle up an 89 ° slope .
[ viaSky NewsandPeople ’s Daily Online . ]
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