This week, director James Cameron laid claim to mountains coming out of the sky and standing there.
Anyone who has a thing for 70’s prog rock and science fiction probably wondered if Cameron did too when they saw 2009’s Avatar, with its alien territories and sky-borne islands that seemed suspiciously close to those of famed Yes album cover artist Roger Dean. Apparently Dean felt the same.
In June 2013, Dean filed a legal action at a court in New York against Cameron, accusing him of “willful and deliberate copying, dissemination and exploitation” of his well-known designs. Dean was looking for damages of $50 million dollars. This week, U.S. District Court Judge Jesse M. Furman dismissed the suit, saying that several of Dean’s claims were ”misguided.”
Cameron has three sequels planned. One takes place on a dark planet with a giant rainbow-making prism and another features a big, screaming, pink face with bad teeth. Upon the dismissal, Cameron’s representatives were heard to say that those who put up lawsuits against them “should not surround themselves with themselves.”
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