The World's First Glimpse of Avatar: 25 Minutes of Footage Premiere at Comic-Con
The Avatar panel is about to begin. Fox head Tom Rothman has come out, and is describing this as a once-in-a-movie-executive's-life experience. The technology, as amazing as it is, he insists, "is resolutely in service of plot and character."
James Cameron emerges, and says he's going to "speak from the heart...I'm a great fan of other worlds...It's a great privilege to present what I've been working on. It's a privilege to share this first with Comic-Con." He talks of being trapped in his home town of Chippawa, Canada ("with a population of half of the people in this room") where he'd dream of Bradbury and Asimov as a child. He dedicates this movie to his 14-year-old self, "dreaming of adventure."
He's now stepping away for the 25 minutes premiering at Comic-Con. ("WE LOVE YOU!" says a man in the crowd.) Then he asks: "How many of you ever wanted to go to another planet. Are you ready to go to Pandora?"
Full report a little later on the footage and panel, featuring Cameron, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldana.
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Cool!
How I wish I could be there to ask Sigourney Weaver to recite a portion of classic dialogue from her Planet Earth narration and spellbind the entire room with those two magic words, "wild ass".
this movie also stars brendan budde's penis so i've been told!
He dedicated the movie to himself? Douchey.
Douchey? I don't think so. Dedicating the movie to the dreams of another world, that he had as a fourteen year old boy is not a douche move. That's what everyone does when they invest part of their lives into these things, it's called "dreaming". You're the douche.