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AVATAR moves forward!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. Well, it's officially happening. Fox has given James Cameron $200 million to move forward on AVATAR. The light is green, the trap is clean.
Cameron announced the project as being the mysterious Project 880 back in February with an interview with Harry and a lot of the big announcement made today has been known, like Weta's involvement in bringing the heavily mo-capped film into reality.
Sam Worthington, whom I really liked in SOMERSAULT and look forward to seeing him do battle with a giant croc in the upcoming ROGUE, is playing the male lead and Zoe Saldana is playing the female lead. You might recognize Saldana from the bit part of Anamaria in the first PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN flick.
Filming with the actors shoots in April.
Harry called to tell me he's supposed to be on the phone with Cameron later today to discuss the details, so watch for this story to be updated or a brand new one pop up in the left hand column there when Harry talks to the main man.
To hold you over, here's a link to an in-depth New York Times piece that just hit! (Thanks Mike!) Enjoy!!!!
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For he is The FIRST.
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Cameron rocks. Its about time he got back to making kick-ass movies again. Although, i'm still waiting for True Lies 2...
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...does Cameron even remember what it's like to film a movie?
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I guess Cameron finally discovered he could only ride the Titanic wave for so long.
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Should be good
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damn itchy taint
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Must've spent all that Titanic cash by now.
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writing and directing sequels to other people's actions movies. I recommend 'Bandidas: Full Tequila Throttle?'
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the wait kills me. im so desperate for some mikey bay transformers, and spidey 3, and everything else this summer, let alone 2009. holy hell, maybe i should force myself to stop reading these sites....not likely
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2009? Damn.
Cameron owes the geek community for his teenage girly panty puller piece of shit knocking Star Wars from top spot in BO history. -
Blonde or not, he's gotta be in there somewhere.
Sam Worthington, dude, when you have a moment, please investigate possible DNA links with Pierce Brosnan. I'm not alleging anything, but if I were you I'd want to look into that.As for TWO HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, sorry to be a square pixel, and I like James Cameron as much as the next guy, but is any film really worth this much money? -
Bad guys dump nuclear weapons on the seabed. Arnie goes down in a sub to check 'em out. Jamie Lee Curtis likes the idea of Arnie going down in a sub, but she's busy... doing... what am I, her agent? I don't know. Not A Fish Called Wanda, anyways.
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Arnie goes down in a sub. Not with Jamie Lee Curtis. She gets furious.
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Back in the homestead, Jamie gives Arnie a telling off.
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Arnie, shunned by his wife and facing marital apocalypse, seeks refuge in drugs and alcohol. Michael Biehn turns up with a moustache, almost detonates a nuclear bomb.
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http://tinyurl.com/yjq77o
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Michael Biehn goes off and climbs a mountain.
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Arnie and Michael Biehn sit down over a coffee and discuss immigration.
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We should hear about the next pre-production meeting in about 2048. What, he ran out of ideas for documentaries about the Titanic? Gotta eat, indeed.
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Back underwater, Arnie encounters some pesky fish.
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Damn you MCMLXXVI
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it's no "bomb in his ribcage".
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Arnie goes to a space station, meets Jeremy Davies, sees some bizarre shit and gets denied an Oscar.
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James Cameron has a bomb in his ribcage.
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Arnie vs. Vampires! Played by Bill Paxton, Lance Hendriksen and Jeanette Goldstein. If you're not excited by this premise, you were obviously not alive in the '80s.
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Jan 08, 2007 4:49:36 PM CST
I thought he had already done a lot of mo-cap for this.
by tubbs tattsyrup
Read that somewhere. Maybe it was BS. Probably, by the sounds of it. It was in a ComingSoon story on how it had been pushed back a year. Still, I cannot FUCKING WAIT.
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Sequel to True Lies 2: Near Dark. Arnie moves his vampire-smashin' from the desert to post-apocalyptic Los Angeles. Produced by James Cameron, directed by Ridley Scott. Almost happened in the late '90s. Then Arnie became guv'nor and realised those vampire cunts can vote.
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It's about time Iron Jim came back! We've missed you buddy!
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$200 Million sure is a lot for a mooby, James Cameron or not. But for a big name director with a property like this, how could it miss?
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reclaim his thrown as the modern day DW griffith. All hail!
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Arnie and Sly get fed up with those fuckin' vampires and decide to sort out that Vietnam shit for good.
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Looking forward to this - I will probably be retired when this comes out, so I can look to using my first Social Security check to pay for my discount admission.
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Gov. Arnie presides over a state of vampires. They make videos of themselves doing things. Tom Sizemore has long hair. Juliette Lewis sings.
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there are a lot of ways a $200 million movie could miss. james cameron makes mediocre movies, and people in the 80's and 90's loved mediocre! in TV, movies, music, everything. but now, it seems that only horrible shit (reality TV, night at the museum) or really good shit (PotC, Heroes) are popular. middle of the road stuff has a huge danger of flopping like a drunk sorority chick in 6 inch heels.
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How does it feel? Twats...
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Meanwhile, his avatar has a beer and cheets on his wife's avatar.
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I think it would make a pretty kick ass movie.
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But instead I just wanted to praise the money goons for pouring such a ridiculously huge amount of cabbage to something that isn't a remake or sequel. For that alone, we should support this film.
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The Black Gate
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Snausages!
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and it will still make a billion dollars"
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Motion-capturing John Lithgow, Dudley Moore and a burp.
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Jan 08, 2007 5:24:29 PM CST
We are going to be worried about this for a LONG time
by performingmonkey
Cameron's last motion picture was Titanic, fucking eleven years ago. That's reason enough to worry. This is a MASSIVE follow-up, it could be too big for him to handle after all this time. Also, he seems determined to rip up the fucking book and rewrite it HIS way with the help of WETA Digital, which YES is an exciting idea but it's also pretty daunting. I have a feeling Avatar is going to go one of two ways ONLY, either the BIGGEST MESS in the history of cinema or the BIGGEST and BEST effects sci-fi movie ever made. Anything in between just ain't happening. Cameron won't LET it happen.
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Justin Timberlake just break up?
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You just called James Cameron's filmography mediocre, and in the same post refer to Heroes and Pirates of the Caribbean as "really good shit". Wow, I KNOW you're 15. Come on, admit it.
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James Cameron gives up deep-sea exploration.
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Starring Andy Serkis as every human character, an ape and a dog.
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Make it happen AICN. The Cameron news has been too few and far in between. This is the director that gets me excited about going to the movies again. I'd love to follow what he's doing with this beheamoth of a project.
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Someone turns off the lights at Weta Digital Motion Capture Studios; Sam Worthington ends up looking like Linda Hunt.
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I was excited about this ... well ... never ... but I'm glad he's finally going to actually direct a movie. The story seems like a yawn. The effects will be great ... but these days it's going to take more than that.
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Bill Paxton finds some money with his retard brother. In space!
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I can definitely wait 'til 2009.
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French New Wave version.
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James Cameron takes the Vietnam War allegory to space... again.
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That fat orange bastard multi-tasks.
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Of IMAX.
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Post-war Italian Realist version.
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Bloody fans, chasing them Avatars around.
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His Aquaman film kicked some serious box office ass in Entourage.
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She was great as the cute immigration officer in THE TERMINAL. Why didn't they bring her back for POTC2??? Anyway, I love her. The end.
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Avatarsploitational social drama.
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Houses of Parliament vs. perennial James Cameron Nuke.
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Avatar gets lost.
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All your base are belong to Avatar
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bill paxton for shamino?
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I was writing mostly tongue in cheek, but I do think cameron is mediocre. the films that he's made successfully (not profit-wise, but quality-wise) are all medicore films. they may be fun, but they're mediocre, plain and simple. titanic was atrociously written, but it was a big spectacle, and appealed to teenagers and women and my girlfriend in high school (who was both). and I do think that reality TV is the worst thing to happen to entertainment. I just wish there were more things out there that would challenge the viewer, rather than just cater to the lowest common denominator.
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Prestigious, three hour drama about the death of Mozart's avatar.
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stop.
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Daaang Skittles! You made my day with that comment. Hellz yeea-yah! I'll bet you'll never slime a guy with a positron collider, huh!? Shitch-yea!
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All right, that's my last shot.
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I know it was a joke for Entourage, but part of me always hoped he'd actually wake up and decide to make Aquaman - starring Marky Mark.
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I remember reading a rumour that John Williams was in talks to score. How about it? Maybe bring James Horner back? Brad Fiedel!
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is actually really funny and I laugh everytime I read it. I am not being sarcastic. it really makes me laugh.
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With that kind of money they could easily have gotten some full frontal nudity out of her.
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but it dawned on me that I don't really care, but I do care enough to post.
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It's going to be one of those style-over-substance blowouts that the studio has down as a calculated success. They haven't really given us much of a premise, and if what they're saying is what we're getting, we're getting a special effects-ridden POS. I guess we'll wait and see.
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First he wanted to find the female lead to marry after he is done with the film.
Need to see some concept art or even better test cgi image before I´ll get excited for Avatar. Doesn´t matter if it´s James Cameron. -
If Avatar tanks, they'll always have "24: The Movie" to reel in the big bucks.
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You kind of used to be amusing and every hundred posts or so someone knew something about film.Can anyone recommend a movie site with people over 12?
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when people hoped to gross, not spend, $200 million on their film. Still, I'm behind this 100% to succeed. Glad to see you back in the blockbuster saddle Mr. Cameron.
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What´s going on with all directors these days?!? Story sound very lame.
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From Nick?
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I'm talking mindblowing, never seen this before, holy shit i just shit myself effects.
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They can CGI some meat on them bones of Zoe.Fo'reals yo
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AVATAR style. Can't beleive no one made that connection yet.
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The Plot:
"Sam Worthington, a young Australian actor, has been named to play the lead, as a paralyzed former marine who undergoes an experiment to exist as an avatar, another version of himself. The avatar is not paralyzed, but is an alien — 10 feet tall and blue. Zoe Saldana, another relative unknown, has been chosen as the love interest."
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than Cameron's liquid metal T-whatever Terminator from 17 years ago. I know he'll bring the goods.
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Bad news killer; me, Lebron23 and a host of noble posters have 100% officially killed "...GOTTA EAT" in the fake wizard of oz story and replaced it with "taint" in any sentence. My wife tells me its hotter than "citizens for humanity" denim, whatever that is. I'm so sorry my man, I actually thought Pound Sand had something with "gotta eat" but the taint fire is just too strong...
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I love me some Zoe Saldana!
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Yeah, baby! This is fucking great news. James Cameron is back behind the camera making an R-rated, big-budget science fiction movie from an orginal screenplay that he wrote. The last couple of times this happened, he produced "The Terminator" and "Aliens," two of the most groundbreaking films ever. I realize people are a bit soured by "Titanic", as am I, to be truthful, but Cameron's science fiction genius will finally be hitting screens again. Fucking a, that's awesome.
I'm encouraged by the fact WETA's onboard, since I read an article about how Cameron let certain WETA workers mess around with his next-gen motion capture stuff. Apparently, after only a week, they were jaw-droppingly impressed by the tools Cameron had developed.
I've never really seen Sam Worthington or Zoe Saldana, so I don't know much about them. But that's cool. Casting up-and-coming actors instead of known quantities adds fuel to the anticipation surrounding "Avatar". Then again, "The Chronicles of Riddick" starred a couple of up-and-comers and that film sucked big time. But I trust Cameron far more than David Twohy.
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Just got off the phone with Cameron - our time was cut short - just 30 minutes thus far - but he's calling me back later tonight - and I can put some of your questions to him. So fire away - I wanna see what YOU WANT TO KNOW - and maybe I can get it straight to the man!
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I remember reading the script to this from Drew's back when I was like 14... I didn't actually finish it though, so the ending will still be a surprise. I wonder why Cameron didn't get a larger budget, $200 million isn't all that impressive, what with Superman and Pirates and LOTR's getting bigger ones. Damnit, I want some really ludicrus amounts of money being thrown onto movie screens, imagine a $500 million dollar epic.
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Did he say how much of the script has changed?
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Boxers or briefs?
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... to a tall, blue alien as it's main lead? And when will we, if ever, see concept art for it?
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Hey Harry, ask him how fighting Mr. T was... Wait, dammit... wrong guy.
But seriously, aside from the alleged amazing effects, what is the vision he has for this movie in terms of tone? Is it the gritty sci-fi (ALA. T1,T2,Aliens) or is he trying to do something different here?
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Okay Harry, here's one from Houston baby-"Jim, the fanbase will demand toyline and video game tie-ins. Have you thought about this already and if so who is competing for the rights for each, respectively? Additionally, what will your cut be? Will you inch off a huge paycheck and demand a cut of the licensing like Lucas?"seriously Harry, you know its on his mind. also, did you see my post last week when the site was running slow about moving your servers to rackspace managed hosting out of san antonio? the VP of sales lives in austin man-you might be neighbors! I hear discount!
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obviously sci-fi, but will cameron try to make this a star wars style pg-13 adventure with action, or a gritty sci-fi action film that will blow our minds? or a romance? what is he going for with AVATAR?
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DOES JESSICA ALBA FIGURE INTO ANY OF HIS FUTURE PROJECTS???
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WHY IS THE TALKBACK CLOCK ABOUT 15 MINUTES SLOW???
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I have no doubt James Cameron is ahead of the curve, from a technologic standpoint. In the article with the NYT, Cameron says, "This will launch an entire new way of seeing and exhibiting movies," With the budget and complexity we're talking about here (multi month shoots, multi hundred million budgets) will anybody else be able to follow in these filmmaking footsteps? Or will the risks simply be too great, dooming Avatar to a one-off.
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Sir, as someone who lives a non-metropolitan area of the US, can you find out if he believes this technology used to project the 3-D will be readily accessible in the small to mid level sized city?
Thank you
Good luck with the nuptuals. -
is it still planned as a trilogy, if so is he planning on doing back to back to back filming?
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WHY DID YOU WAIT SO LONG TO MAKE ANOTHER FICTION FEATURE-LENGTH FILM?
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Is he making Avatar just so he can refine the technology so he can make the Aquaman movie HE wants to see?
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Hey Harry. Here's my question for The Cameron (I need to refer to him thus):
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I've always liked the worlds he creates. In AVATAR, is the world he created for this a total forest world (e.g. Endor or the Wookie Planet)? If so, what distinguishes this world visually? What unique features will the environ have?
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That is if you haven't already...
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What's the fastest animal on earth?
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and would he cast Sly?
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...Zoe is smokin and will be great.
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could he beat up Steven Speilburg, physically?
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Hey Harry. Thanks for the opportunity to give you ideas. I -- and pretty much everyone on your site -- appreaciates it. I almost can't believe you trust us that much. Ahem... the question:
In the NY times article, I read that the story pits an alien army against a human army on a distant planet. It sounds larger scale than anything I've seen from Cameron in the past, which is great. Does the story have an epic feel and scale, or does it focus on a smaller, emotional scale, or both? -
Is there any chance you and Ridley Scott would ever team up with Dark Horse Comics and do a mini-series showing exactly what we could have expected with your mentioned Alien 5 teamup?(DYR!)
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making "Macross"? The original Japanese version of course. It's an epic tale I could see him taking on.
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Vinny Chase has got to eat!
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1) Cameron almost always has some kind of relationship at the core of his films (be it husband/wife (Abyss, True Lies), mother/daughter (Aliens), father/son (T2), guy/girl (T1, Titanic), etc)- what kind of relationship is at the core of Avatar? ----------- 2) Cameron's films have a lot of iconic visuals- is there any particular image he's looking forward to in this film, and would he be willing to reval what it is?
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Hi James, Vicenzo from Holland speaking.
What films released since 1997 do you feel raised the bar from a technical point of view, and have they inspired you to take a seat in the director's chair again?
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And does he thank his lucky stars everyday that he was able to escape with his life?
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Michael Biehn or Bill Paxton in Avatar? Isn't that pretty much a requirment in a Cameron flick?
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...if he's going to return to his well of great characters actors again on this one (Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Bill Paxton et al), the first two especially could do with some more quality work.
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asked me "how's it going?" Sweet.
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read these talkbacks more thoroughly, I'm missing, stuff.
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The story of passngers on board a giant luxury liner. When the ship strikes an iceberg and sinks, several passngers and crew members survie the icy water and crushing depths by going into a Yoga trance. 75 years later they rise from the depths and terrorize the crew of a salvage vessel...
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Because that has to happen or I may as well end my worthless life right now. All hail Arnold!
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I'm still trying to forget that piece of garbage.
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was to wait for avatars to go mainstream with the popularity of instant messaging. Animated gifs of Brian Peppers taint guaranteed!
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Cameos for animated gifs of Brian Peppers taint guaranteed!
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Has anyone done that one yet?
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I want to know if James has any idea of who's scoring Avatar yet. Also, I remember reading a while ago that James originally had an idea for T3, but that the studio refused to give him complete creative control. Mind you I've also read quotes from him saying he didn't feel he had a story to tell. Could he make clear which was the case? If he had done T3, would he have gone straight to the Future War? Lastly, kind've a geek question: If the T800 had been successful in Terminator 1, or the T1000 successful in Terminator 2, what would each Terminator have done after successfully completing their mission; given that they can't self-terminate? Go on holiday? Thanks Harry!
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Duh! They obviously both had bombs in their ribcages. Yeah I know that doesnt really work with the T-1000 but I didnt think it through ok? I hope He uses Brad Fiedel, i think that guys been in hibernation since True Lies. Fuck Horner though, the only good score he wrote was for Aliens.
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I also really miss Brad Fiedel, but I do think Horner did a brilliant job on Titanic. But man, Fiedel nailed that cold metallic tone in the Terminator movies. Not to mention creating a theme I hum on a daily basis.
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Well, if it's the Ripley clone, then she wins hands down. But, Connor (T2) vs. Ripley (Aliens)? I hate to say it but unless Ellen had some big guns or a power loader, Sarah would whup the bejesus out of her.
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I've only seen titanic once, never again! All I can remember of the music is Celine Dions awful warbling. I'll take your word for it that its a good score though.
Crayotic, check this list http://us.imdb.com/boxoffice/alltimegross?region=world-wide
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a way to more efficiently bathe every shot in blue light?
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As ALL 3 together cost 240 mill. 80 mill each isn't exactly big budget these days.
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How far along is Battle Angel Alita? Will he be working on Battle Angel after principal photgraphy on Avatar is finished?
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I'm so excited for this movie...Also, will Cameron be at Comic-Con 2007?
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year...cause Bush is gonna' blow up the world before 2009.
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But it could be cool. Titanic is a turd, but you can't argue with True Lies, Terminator, and Aliens. Still, with all this talk the effects better blow my brain right out the back of my fucking skull. I haven't seen anything to convince me that almost all digital is the way to go yet, and I still think practical effects look better whenever they can be used. Could this change my mind? Who knows?Taint
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Will Iron Jim keep his highly detailed sets in the mix, among all the CG? One of the reasons I found Titanic so incredible is the visceral nature of the ship. You actually felt like you were there, because well, they recreated a huge portion of the ship. I just don't want Jim's movies to become too clean like most CG intensive movies. Cameron's movies have had some of the best set design around, but I guess most of that was with ILM.
Sorry for all the questions, but I'm a JC nut, I wake up hoping to hear some production news from Jim.
Honestly the most exciting director in film today.
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YIFF THIS!!!
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Is the MMORPG Cameron is planning based on Avatar or Battle Angel, or is he making a game for both? Is it true that Arnold may play Ido in Battle Angel? Have scientists actually detected planets in the Alpha Centauri system?
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If I still made it.
James- What are you hoping to accomplish with this film? It feels like you are trying to change cinema. Why?
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Do you hate Michael Bay for being a K-Mart version of you? He's like a Go-Bot to your Transformer.....
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Hmmm. If I'm not mistaken, didn't "Darth" get incinerated in a funeral pyre inside the confines of an "Ewok" settlement.
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Lucas/ILM created Photorealistic Alien Worlds, and Characters moving around in those Digital Worlds, using Blue Screen and Computers long before Cameron. It's funny how Lucas was Bashed for using a lot of Bluescreen/CGI in the Prequels, but it is somehow alright for other Filmmakers to use those methods heavily, and be called Revolutionary.
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http://tinyurl.com/y2ds8w
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But you left your self open. I had to take it.
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Lucas wasn't bashed for using blue screens, he was bashed for making horrendously crappy films. Blue screen used well is a fabulous moviemaking tool. I think everyone here would agree with this assessment.
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This love story is going to involve a giant blue alien... Time to sell your Fox stocks...
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Hey Harry; ask Cameron why he went with Weta instead of ILM. Since the World of Avatar will be all Digital, ILM seems like a better choice. Weta has mostly used Miniatures and real Landscapes like New Zealand to create their Worlds(CGI with creatures). On the other hand, ILM has a lot more experience with Digital Worlds.
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Cobbio was spot on with his answer, you are a fucking douche.
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Who will win the 'title bout' this time?
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Cobbio; You are full of shit! Were you hiding in a cave from 1999 to 2005. Lucas was bashed constantly for his extensive use of Bluescreen/CGI work. The Star Wars Prequels may have had a lot of flaws, but the Visual Effects in those movies raised the bar for future movies, no matter what you and the other sheep say.
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...if it is anything near as ambitious as the leaked "scriptment." Which was, IMHO, pretty run of the mill for SF but pretty "high concept" for the crap Hollywood typically cranks out. I felt Cameron was definitly channeling Niven and Pournelle as I read it. Mad props to Cameron if he can pull this off.
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...as a result of films like Lord of the Rings, etc? I know he said that seeing Return of the King made him want to play with effects again. I can't wait to see what he does...don't know how long I can hold out
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Now with Shyamalan wanting to do a live action version of AVATAR: The Last Airbender and the respective studios fighting over the name, what is Cameron's take on the whole thing?
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I am a "fucking douche"? Wow! How long did it take you to come up with that response Shakespear?
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YEEEEAAAAHH!
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You know your mouth? Well I just jacked off into it and made you swallow.
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200 mil ain't fuck. It was already reported before it would be closer to 300. So don't be surprised to see it climb. Titanic was suppose to be around 175-200 mil and exploded to 275 or some shit like that. This won't do Titanic numbers because space has a limited audience and is not based on a true story. But it'll easily makes it's money back.
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Damn you Michael Bay
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It is known he is up to date on the camera and will own a few. Does he intend to use it on AVATAR?
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love it.
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First off, thanks for taking time to answer questions from your fans. 1. How has your documentary work influenced your approach to narrative filmmaking? 2. What are your favorite documentaries? 3. What do you love about science fiction? 4. What do you like about anime and mangas? 5. What do you enjoy about collaboratiing on a screenplay and how do you see this process affecting Avatar? 6. To echo an earlier question, which movies of that past ten years do you appreciate/admire/enjoy the most? Thank you so much.
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When you talk to Cameron, can you ask him how much of his own money has been invested in order to set up his $200m meetings with the studios. Can he also give insight into what studios are looking for when these big top dog filmmakers come calling them. I went to hollywood and could only get a meeting with 20th century fox. they were nice but being australian, they told me to go back home and make it.
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Saying the production process is similar to creating an animated film, Cameron estimated that the finished film will be 60% CG elements and 40% live action. He is aiming for the sort of photo-realism achieved by the CG sequences in "Kong" and the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy.
The competitive race among four VFX houses for the assignment to supervise the film's visual effects was won by Peter Jackson's Oscar-winning Weta Digital, which worked on "Rings."
"Any one of them could have handled the volume of shots, the scale of the project, and handled the technology," Cameron said. "Joe Lettieri and his team had a history of translating facial performance capture to really good photo-real characters. The culture there is imbued from the head down with a passion for fantasy filmmaking. And they met us halfway on the price." -
and not before time...let's face it, this movie will crush all before it
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How does Jim feel about THE ABYSS nowadays? I still feel it's his best film and an amazing achievement. Ed Harris' performance is sensational. Any plans for a new DVD release with an anamorphic transfer? And will Michael Biehn be in AVATAR?
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don't mess with Iron Jim!!!
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One a scale from one two ten -- one being the family friendly battles of the Star Wars prequels, ten being the bloody fucking insanity of Starship Troopers -- how violent are the fight scenes going to be?
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...nonsense...Go gators indeed!! Where I come from, the creature is called an Alligator, but 'oh no, can't have it sounding like a muslim terrorist' so what, you take away the ALI part of it!!!!! Turn it to just Gator! You people make me sick!! Puma sneaker sick!
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awesome works fellas, continue to spread the TAINT all over the place! (oh wow, that was 100% awful) and Harry, thanks for trying to steal away the taint goodness with this cameron question scam. it didn't work! taint lives! gotta eat is dead!
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taint gotta eat!
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....outta the Doobies
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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21036149-2902,00.html
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Who didn't love Scooby-Doo? (...not those P.O.S. movies of a few years back...) Takamoto's work belongs in the Pantheon of cartoon greatness. ...may he rest peacefully.
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Then I'm not interested.
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...and the fact that no one else wanted to work with Cameron.
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Cool, my brother. And I agree 100%. M. Night must go.
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I can answer your question: Because you haven't done anything. That concept seems to be lost on you and your fellow delusional talkbacker, JDanielP. Do you know how a director gets a job directing a feature film? The producer saw something the director made, and liked it. Do you know how actors get cast in a feature film? The producer or director saw the actor give a performance in something, and they liked it. See the pattern? Even Sam Raimi didn't get SPIDER-MAN until the producers watched his filmography to see if he was the right guy to direct. I heard that the pathos from A SIMPLE PLAN and the star-crossed romance from FOR LOVE OF THE GAME were what sealed the deal for the execs at the studio. I'm in a state of stunned shock that you actually flew halfway around the world to try to get meetings with studios.....and you haven't made anything other than student/home movies! Quit trying to tell them what you can do. Show them what you can do.
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Well boys in scanning the most recent posts on the most recent stories it saddens me to say that no one has used any version of taint in hours.
Apparently then dorothy's taint is now officially dead as the lastest AICN catchphrase
I've been reading this site for six years and never before have I seen a catchphrase set the world on fire so fast, and burn out just as quickly
oh my dear dorothy's taint, we hardly knew ye...
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...taint...
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Yes, I saw what Judge Dredds Dirty Undies said. What he says is impossible, since he doesn't have a penis.
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Has budget concerns compromised your artistic integrity or direction of the film?
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