James Cameron Sued Again Over 'Avatar'

James Cameron was being sued two weeks ago for stealing the ideas behind his 3D blockbusters "Avatar". Now a second lawsuit has been filed against the writer/director over the "Avatar" ideas and, this time, the lawsuit is asking for a much heftier sum of cash, $1.5 billion in actual damages, plus another $1 billion in punitive damages, while "Avatar" raked in $2.78 billion worldwide to become the highest-grossing film of all time.

The lawsuit comes from Bryant Moore, a science fiction screenwriter who claims that the legendary filmmaker based Avatar on his scripts for two projects called "Aquatica" and "Descendants: The Pollination", adding that there are too many plot similarities between his ideas and Cameron's movie.

Cameron's attorney, Bert Fields, and Fox both slammed the latest suit by science fiction writer Bryant Moore as without merit.

"Mr. Cameron was demonstrably the author of 'Avatar'. We can prove that, and we intend to prove that in court. Moore's claim - and, for that matter, any claim alleging that someone other than Cameron had authored the movie - is entirely without merit," said Fields.