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Nanospy #371 reports in on Cameron's AVATAR!

Hey folks, Harry here. Quint ran a story recently about AVATAR - it was a story with many hiccups that need clarifying. So - I contacted my long term bit of nanobot technology that I've had tucked away over in Fox's offices to go through secret files over there, to listen in on phone calls and what not. The reality is... The Visual FX person that was in question in that report is Brooke Breton, who has been working alongside Jon Landau around the time of Warren Beatty's DICK TRACY, but hooked back up with him on the James Cameron produced SOLARIS.

Nanospy #371 tells me that Rob Legato has been VERY HANDS on throughout the Research and Development phase in James Cameron's reach for the stars with AVATAR (aka PROJECT 880). Also - this film doesn't have a budget in any real world sense of things. Then - in regards to Quint's paranoia that this is a 100% CG - this is absolutely not going to be 100% CG. When I spoke to James Cameron, when he announced through AICN, that PROJECT 880 was AVATAR, he told me that the film would have sets, props, actors and the whole nine yards. That said - if you know the old AVATAR scriptment - there was a need for mocap aliens that become surrogate explorers for our leads. The Mo-Cap work will be for them. Also - Nanospy #371 says that Fox's leadership is anticipating that whatever date they end up first announcing, that it'll most likely be a year later than that, as they keep refering to Cameron as being like, "Kubrick" in his attention to detail and attention to deadlines.

Personally, this is the one Fox project that I'm eager and dying to know as much about. Mainly because I know James Cameron won't suffer the foolhardy elements in control of that studio. Everything else... concern is warranted.

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