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The attendees of the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam were treated to a 24 minute assemblage of footage from James Cameron's AVATAR and a visit from the cast and crew!
{sidebar id=1}Although the audience was required to sign non-disclosure agreements regarding the footage and what was shown, an IESB reader was kind enough to send over a short write up of they saw, what the cast said and descriptions of their characters in the film.
Thanks to "Anonymous" for the send in!
AVATAR opens in theaters this December. And yes, Jim still thinks he's King of the World...and he's probably right.
Tuesday night at the Cinema Expo in Amsterdam Twentieth Century Fox
showed some exclusive scenes from James Camerons Avatar. Cast members Sam
Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang and Sigourney Weaver introduced the
scenes. First up was Weaver who explained how the Avatars work. Her character
Dr. Grace Augustine is a scientist who dreams of living side by side with the
10-feet tall, blue skinned creatures the NaVi. To make it possible for humans
to live on Pandora, she created these NaVi replicas, Avatars.
Next up to tell the audience about Avatar is Stephen Lang. He plays
Colonel Quaritch. A 'first shoot, ask questions later' kind of a guy. Hes
the only one who gets into character, when adressing the audience. He said that
Dr. Augustine is nothing more than a tree hugger. The only way to deal with
the NaVi is to kill them. They maybe stronger physically, but we have more
powerfull weapons, he says. Leading man and by all means the new action hero,
Sam Worthington, had a bad case of jetlag. Barely audible he tells the audience
about his character, Jake Sully. A crippled ex-marine who travels to Pandora and
comes into contact with Dr. Augustine. She gives him a chance to walk again, as
an Avatar.
Zoe
Saldana plays a
NaVi called Neytiri. She says: It took months to prepare for this role. I had
to learn to fight like a Na'Vi. It was very demanding, but also really fun.
And just when the audience thought this was it, James
Cameron walks on stage wearing 3-D glasses. A roar of applause fills the
auditorium. The futures so bright I gotta wear shades, he riffs. It took
Cameron and his crew more than four years to come to this point. Its hard to
believe, but the first year and a half we spend thinking about how were going
to make this movie.
The audience got to
see several finished scenes with Jakes Avatar walking around on the beautiful
Pandora and fighting all kinds of exotic creatures. In one of the scenes Jake
and Neytiri walk in the jungle at night. Flowers, trees and the earth glow in
the dark. The last scene is the battle between the humans and the NaVi. Because
it's unfinished, it consisted of crude 3-D scenes, like out of a video game. It
makes me want to create a time machine like Cartman from South Park, so that I dont have to wait till
the 18th of December to watch the finished movie. If it's anything
like the scenes I saw, it's going to be one of the best movies of the
decade.
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