10 Movie Scenes That Led To Massive Lawsuits - Commenter Edition

Up until last year, Avatar was the highest-grossing movie of all time with $2.7 billion worldwide, and with a handful of sequels on the way, there's a chance that the franchise could rake in billions of dollars more before all is said and done.

And where there's such an insane amount of money, there will be people who feel like they're owed a slice of it, and that's precisely what inspired artist Roger Dean to file a legal complaint against director James Cameron and studio 20th Century Fox.

The lawsuit - worth a massive $50 million - was submitted in 2013, with Dean claiming that Cameron's sci-fi epic "copied" elements of Pandora's look from his own body of work. In particular, the lawsuit specified that the film's floating islands and ancient trees were hugely derivative of Dean's own art, and that things looked so similar that it would've been impossible for Cameron to have copied him accidentally.

In the end though, the suit was dismissed by a New York judge, with the court finding no substantial similarities between Dean's work and Cameron's film.