Cameron's "Avatar"

[black_dust]

I couldn't read it, the layout of it is horrid i read the intro though, i like it

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

That's how Cameron writes scripts, or "scriptments" as he likes to call them.

 

[DorkyFresh]

is it spoilerific? i wanna know more but i don't wanna know plot details (who dies, etc...)

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

It's 132 pages of full dialogue, detailed scene description, everything, the entire movie. What you read there is what you will see on screen.

 

[War Party]

I really hope this film turns out great. Just reading about it makes me excited. Lets hope it doesn't disappoint.

 

[terry78]

I'm waiting to see which CGI humanoids scare me more, Cameron's in Avatar or Zemeckis' in Beowulf.

 

[Cinemaman]

Thought Cameron's Avatar is going to be masterpiece, I wouldn't close doors for such intersting project as Zemeckis' Beowulf, which will most likely turn out as one of the best winter blockbusters this year.

 

[Galactus]

James Cameron's Avatar Gets a Date!
Source: 20th Century Fox February 22, 2007


Avatar, James Cameron's long-awaited non-doc follow-up to his 1997 Oscar-winning blockbuster Titanic, has claimed its date of release, and it's going to be hitting theatres on Memorial Day weekend in 2009. That's in just 27 short months for those who want to start standing in line.

With a cast that includes Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, Cameron's sci-fi epic is about a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival

 

[Hunter Rider]

I love me a spot of confirmation

 

[Cinemaman]

Wow, I will be almost 19, when Avatar comes

 

[Erzengel]

I hope he gets Celine Dion to sing the end song of Avatar.

 

[Cinemaman]

^^^

Sure he will

 

[IKnowSomeJudo]

I hope he gets Celine Dion to sing the end song of Avatar.

Yeah, a death metal song by Celine Dion, preferrably.

 

[Hunter Rider]

http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?id=40733

Biehn Talks Possible Avatar Role

Michael Biehn confirmed that he has talked with director James Cameron about a role in the helmer's upcoming SF epic film Avatar, which would reunite him with his Aliens director and co-star Sigourney Weaver in a movie Biehn characterized as "Lawrence of Arabia in space."

"I've had two very very good meetings with Jim," Biehn said March 25 in an interview while promoting Grindhouse, in which he has a part. "And they went very well. He showed me a lot of stuff that he was doing. Showed me the presentation that he showed Fox. I thought they went very well. There have been a lot of other sources, like Harry Knowles at Ain't-It-Cool-News.com, that have reported they have sources saying that I'm doing it, but so far I haven't heard anything from Jim. He hasn't cast the role yet."

Cameron has already cast Weaver, Australian actor Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in the movie, which Cameron wrote and has been developing for more than a decade. Avatar is the story of a wounded ex-marine who is unwillingly sent to settle and exploit a faraway planet. He gets caught up in a battle for survival by the planet's inhabitants.

Biehn has appeared in several of Cameron's films, including the original Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss. "I've had two meetings with him, but they were a while ago, and he hasn't cast the role, and he hasn't cast me in it," Biehn said.

Biehn added that if he wins the role, his Grindhouse director Robert Rodriguez deserves some of the credit. "He and Robert are friends," Biehn said. "If I did get cast in it, ... I would give a lot of credit to Robert, because Robert showed Jim a lot of my footage from this movie before I had those meetings with Jim. So, you know, I think that ... I'm not sure that Jim saw me in that role originally anyway, and I think I might have won him over in a couple of meetings."

Avatar, which will be shot in 3-D with advanced technology Cameron has developed, is eyeing a Memorial Day 2009 release. —Patrick Lee, News Editor

 

[DorkyFresh]

i hope he gets a role. it'd make it feel more like a Cameron movie...

 

[L0ngsh0t]

Oh nice, Biehn is cool


This movie could be a trip

 

[CAH]

You know, I do believe that this film will ROCK!

It sounds like an incredible story/script and the cast is good so far...and of course, its freaking James Cameron! I'll be 17 when the film comes out...I think we can expect a trailer in early 2008, which is cool...I read somewhere that he said he will be done filming by the end of THIS YEAR, but editing/etc. for a LONG time.

Looking forward to it!

CAH

 

[black_dust]

I hope Biehn gets the role he is a cool guy and an underrated actor i think

 

[Electrix]

Michael Biehn Talks 'Avatar' -- Cameron Not Using Cameras?

Posted Mar 26th 2007 6:01PM by Jessica Barnes

Once again, when it comes to James Cameron, it cannot just be about making a movie it's about pioneering technology. Firstlook.net spoke with Michael Biehn during the L.A. junket for Grindhouse and he spoke about Cameron's Avatar and his possible involvement in the project. Biehn told Firstlook, "I've read the script, it's like Lawrence of Arabia in space. That's what you're looking at." Biehn's casting would make the film a reunion of sorts since Ryan gave us the news back in February that Sigourney Weaver had signed for the film. But Biehn has still not confirmed whether there will be role for him in the film.

Biehn also hinted that some of the technology behind the project would blow audiences away, saying, "Jim basically was talking to me about the technology of shooting this stuff and he said to me, 'Well, we don't really use a camera, Michael. We're not talking about film, we're not talking about HD... We don't use a camera.' -- but, unfortunately there was not much more info on what that really entails. Cameron is known for his technological advancements in The Abyss and Titanic, I for one am curious to see what he has planned this time. Cinematical was also at the Grindhouse junket, just in a different room -- our coverage is coming, as soon as we can type it all up.

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/03/26/michael-biehn-talks-avatar-cameron-not-using-cameras/

 

[Hahahaha]

Here's the review from AICN.com:

ABking visits AVATAR... and tells all!

Father Geek here, our resident Arnie & Sly spy ABking sent in the following report on Cameron's AVATAR scriptment. Now, I know some of you might have already picked up this info someplace or another, but I'm betting the great majority of our readers will be blown away by this project that James has been quitely toying with for a while now in the shadow of SPIDERMAN. This is the stuff of dreams...

Spoiler

For anyone reading this, this is what I thought about James Cameron's amazing scriptment/treatment for AVATAR. Cameron should make this right away because it will be his big version of STAR WARS. While reading this scriptment, only one movie star came to mind to play the hero. It was Jim's good friend Arnold Schwarzenegger.

I think Josh's character would be perfect for Schwarzenegger. The story start's of with Josh a bit downtrodden in a lot of ways like Arnie's character in End of Days. Maybe even more so. Avatar is the action epic that End of Days should have been, and I'm willing to bet on the epic level of With Wings As Eagles or Crusade.

I'll try to tell the story basically in three parts.

Part A: Josh ends up becoming part of a company program that mines resources from a distant planet called Pandora. On this planet are a race of 8ft tall, humanoid aliens called the Na'vi. The company has developed a process to "grow" Avatars, which are a combination of human and Na'vi DNA cells grown to full adult size. With these 8ft shells that look like the Na'vi and have enough human DNA in them, the human donor's mind can be linked into the body of the Avatar. This allows humans the ability to breath on the planet and communicate better with the aliens. See, Josh had a twin brother who was in this deal, and an Avatar was being developed for him. But his brother dies and because each Avatar costs the company 20 million to develop they go to Josh who agrees to take his brother's place. The human's mind is linked into his Avatar's body ala The Matrix.

Part Two: On the planet, Josh goes through training sessions where he learns to use his Avatar body. Eventually, he and other "controller" (humans who are linked to Avatar), learn to move around and survive on the planet, which is covered mostly by a rainforest. These forests are filled with fantastic and deadly creatures like the Manticore which is this gigantic, black-coated panther like creature with six legs and a tail with a poisonous stinger on it. Theres' also a creature called a tenticore I think, that's twice as big as an elephant, is armored and has a head similar to a hammerhead shark. There's a creature called a slinger that has a long neck, and can literally sling its dart-shaped head like a smart missile. the head nails its' prey, then it's headless body reattaches its head by regenerating the cartilage and nerves to the head, then the slinger eats its prey. Cameron creates all kinds of deadly creatures that infest the forests. Also, this planet's weird magnetic field causes a particular phenomenon. Many mountains and mountain ranges actually "float" above the planet. I can't remember enough to explain it now, but it's explained pretty well in the scriptment.

Well, the company has a camp in the middle of this forest surrounded by guard towers and electric fences to kkeep these creatures out. they also have gunships and 14-ft armored hydraulic suits (reminds me a lot like the metal carrier suit used in Aliens) but with gatling guns and flamethrowers. This camp is ran by this dude who's only interested in raping the planet of its resources and making the company profit and doesn't really care about the damage mining causes on the eco-system of the planet and its aliens. Over a series of small adventures on Pandora, Josh meets this Na'vi woman who teaches him how to survive on the planet, and they become attracted to each other. Remember the Na'vi though alien, are very humanoid. Well soon conflict rises between the Na'vi, Josh, a few controllers and the company's military.

Part 3. Basically there are several battles between tne Na'vi led by Josh and the company army. Imagine gigantic tanks crashing through forests of trees 3 times bigger than the Sequoia's on Earth. Imagine these trees are so huge, gunships are flying through them weaving in an out as they blast at the Na'vi who are on foot, or flying on the backs of giant flying creatures. Imagine a couple of aerial battles in the air as gunships dodge between the floating mountains, and waterfalls in the air then flying down into the giant forests.

Also, the creatures which the Na'vi can psychically link with are attacking the soldiers in their armored suits. There are battles like I've never imagined and plenty of action. josh jumps off one flying creature on the the back of one gunship, and manages to snatch the pilot out of the cockpit. There's even a scene where giant jellyfish-like creatures float through the air and cause several of the gunships to crash and explode.

There is literally too much to describe. I was exhausted after reading this scriptment, and it would make one of the best sci-fi/action/adventures ever made. But the cost to make this movie would be incredible. It would take literally 200 million at least, and the Na'vi, the Avatars, and the creatures would literally have to be computer generated. Actually, this movie could be made and made well even without Arnie, but to see an Avatar version of Arnie would be could. Imagine a eight-nine ft tall blue-skinned, slender but powerfully-muscled Arnie with cat-like eyes, fangs, three-fingers and a thumb on each hand and a panther-like tail. That's what Avatar would give you.

ABking

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/5169?semperex-search

Wow!! I love it!!! I'm willing to wait for this to be made as James Cameron envisions it. It's a weird contrast and something to remember that George didn't have the technology, the time constraint and pressure that he was under in by the 20th Century Fox studios and just so much funding was allocated for him and yet the best damn vision of a science fiction and fantasy adventure ever was made and now James Cameron having shown us what back in 1986 HIS vision for this genre, I have faith....

 

[green]

A bit from Weaver...
http://iesb.net/index.php?option=com_d4j_ezine&task=read&page=1&category=1&article=2166&Itemid=28

IESB: It seems the juicy roles in theater are the older roles, do you see that translating to Hollywood as well?

SW: I do, I think it will. Like, the movie I am making with Jim Cameron, I have a very juicy part. Its not the lead, but, its the second lead, you know, Im not one of the two young people in love but Im the older person in love so I mean, I just think that it will. The public is always ahead of the business and we never give them enough credit and they are very sophisticated and I think the fact that there are so many baby boomers wanting to see interesting films is one reason we have had so many successful independent films. There will always be a youth market and we have to feed that but there is certainly room for everything, especially when you have like 3,000 channels and stuff like that, so.

IESB: Regarding Avatar, they are saying photo realism without a traditional camera, do you know anything about how the character is going to look, is she going to look like you?

SW: Sometimes(laughs) Theyre transforming the way this kind of movie is being made, Ill tell you that. Jim has invented different cameras to capture this world and some of it is, whatever you call, real..

IESB: Photo realism?

SW: Yes, but probably most of it is not. (laughter)

IESB: I was talking to Michael Biehn yesterday at the premiere of Grindhouse, and he said he has had talks with Jim but he doesnt know if hes going to come aboard, but he referred to Avatar as Lawrence of Arabia in Space. Do you think thats accurate?

SW: Hmm, well, I think scope-wise it probably is. I think Lawrence of Arabia is a bit more mobile than ours (laughter), ours is big entertainment, its a big, lush, old-fashioned romantic adventure the likes of which no one has ever seen. Im reading this thing, just going, how are you going to do that? You know? If anyone can do it, Jim can. Its incredibly ambitious and at the same time its all these wonderful actors that you care about and its a very topical script in the sense that it is about the environment and the forces of good and evil, but its incredibly ambitious.

IESB: Is your character as strong as Ripley?

SW: Wouldnt you like to know (smiles). Its very different. Im not playing anyone remotely like Ripley, I play a botanist.

IESB: Could there ever be another Aliens movie?

SW: I dont think so. When they did Alien vs. Predator, that did in the monster for all time. You know, sometimes when I see Ridley Scott we talk about, you know, some of the themes of Alien are still interesting to pursue but the monster is not viable anymore I dont think.

 

[Electrix]

If anyone is interested in Avatar there is a really good site dedicated to it.

http://www.uthell.co.uk/Avatar/Avatar.html

 

[green]

http://joblo.com/avatar-teaser-poster

One of the best parts about upcoming movie news is getting a super early, so early that it’s almost naughty, peek at the teaser poster for a much-talked about blockbuster epic from a truly revolutionary director. Well folks, today is that day because what we have for you here is some real live spy *****.

The image on the right seems to be an authentic teaser poster for James Cameron’s upcoming AVATAR, and was taken from a ‘mood room’ at the WETA studios in New Zealand, where production on the film’s complex effects is underway. Also, the photographer claimed that the photo had a strange 3-D quality to it, that the logo and the earth pop out, and the light around it moves when you do. Man, even Cameron’s posters are advanced. Anyway, we’ll know soon enough whether or not this poster is authentic, but it looks legit to me. AVATAR comes out May 2009.

Extra Tidbit: There is a chance the studio may pull this story.

 

[Hunter Rider]

 

[french joker]

can't even imagine how awesome it's gonna be