Eric Ryder, a 3 D animator, has filed a lawsuit in California federal court, arguing that Cameron stole his idea for Avatar: The Way of Water from a science fiction story titled KRZ that he wrote in 1999. According to Ryder, he submitted the story to Lightstorm, which eventually opted not to produce the project. Later, he found that many of his KRZ ideas were reused in the Avatar franchise. The...
