burlivesleftnut wrote:Don't be so sure. Kids today don't know who this guy is.
burlivesleftnut wrote:I read the scriptment ages ago. I think Cameron is making a mistake. This would have been insanely cool pre-Matrix, but now... well it seems like a dull premise.
Doc Holliday wrote:Remember Aliens at the time? Most people wrote it off - nowhere near as many sequels got made back then - and very few of a movie with the impact that the original ALIEN had had.
MasterWhedon wrote:A poster in the Flushed Away TB posted THIS LINK to a Cached file containing Cameron's old treatment for Avatar.
According to Mori, Cameron's been tracking down old copies of this and destroying it, so be warned. It you read this, James Cameron will hunt you down and kill your children.
Ribbons wrote:It was probably in some crappy movie no one else has heard of.
jgraphix wrote:my bet would be on Alita...because if he does do a trilogy, he's going to wanna get the first one out there a.s.a.p. But they will probably be released relatively close to each other if he plans on doing both at the same time.
MasterWhedon wrote:A poster in the Flushed Away TB posted THIS LINK to a Cached file containing Cameron's old treatment for Avatar.
According to Mori, Cameron's been tracking down old copies of this and destroying it, so be warned. It you read this, James Cameron will hunt you down and kill your children.
silentbobafett wrote:Was shocked to not find an Avatar thread.
Anyway, heres an update:
Cameron's Avatar Pushed Back to 2009
Source: The Independent, CHUD December 22, 2006
Titanic director James Cameron talked to The Independent about his new feature, Avatar, which he says will now hit theaters the summer of 2009 (it was previously scheduled for summer 2008). Here are several clips from the interview:
"Avatar is a very ambitious sci-fi movie." The director's enthusiasm is evident in his voice. "It's a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence. It's an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience. It aspires to a mythic level of storytelling."
"The film requires me to create an entirely new alien culture and language, and for that I want 'photo-real' CGI characters. Sophisticated enough 'performance-capture' animation technology is only coming on stream now. I've spent the last 14 months doing performance-capture work - the actor performs the character and then we animate it.
"I always want to find something mentally engaging. I'll spend many months completing the special effects on Avatar, and it will not be released until the summer of 2009. It's quite a challenge - and for that reason, I embrace it."
In Avatar, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
mistertim wrote:James Cameron wrote:It's an old-fashioned jungle adventure [...] The film requires me to create an entirely new alien culture and language [...] I'll spend many months completing the special effects on [my] Avatar [...] a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
A 'Zone' biopic perhaps?
MonkeyM666 wrote:That sounds pretty cool, all though when ever I hear avatar these days I think of Nick toons the last airbender series.
Shame I can't find any pics floating around...
MonkeyM666 wrote:Oh Boba... this is my favourite new cartoon of '06.
I can't be bothered writing the whole description, so read the below from TV.comIn a lost age, the world is divided into four nations: the Water Tribes, the Earth Kingdom, the Fire Nation, and the Air Nomads. Within each nation, there is a remarkable order of men and women called the "benders" who can learn to harness their inborn talent and manipulate their native element. Bending is a powerful form combining martial art and elemental magic. In each generation, only one bender is solely capable of controlling all four elements. That bender is the Avatar.
It's an east meets west US cartoon that is aimed at early teens, so when you watch it expect some younger humour and the like. I enjoy it so much because it reminds me of the excitement I felt when I watched shows like Voltron and Pizza Cats as a kid. It uses the ever-constant Jap-epic plot line (save the world, you are the chosen one although you don't want to be... etc), so the story keeps building from ep to ep, series to series.
I can imagine that Nick are planning to make a movie or two about is as well. It would easily cross formats and make them a bucket load of cash at the same time.
Nickelodeon are promoting the hell out of it, making it their 'big hitter' of the season. There’s card games, video games, dvds, toys…. Everything a sly marketing exec can think of.
It's currently in season 2, and I'm waiting for season 3 to start soon.
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