{"id":6174,"date":"2009-07-24T06:22:11","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=6174"},"modified":"2009-07-24T06:24:45","modified_gmt":"2009-07-24T05:24:45","slug":"james-cameron-talks-avatar-at-comic-con","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/07\/24\/james-cameron-talks-avatar-at-comic-con\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron talks Avatar at Comic-Con"},"content":{"rendered":"
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James Cameron<\/a><\/strong> screened about 25 minutes of\u00a0his new sci-fi film Avatar<\/a><\/strong> at the Comic-Con<\/a> in San Diego yesterday.<\/p>\n Budgeted at a reported $240 million, the 3-D computer-generated epic is probably the most hotly anticipated film of the year.<\/p>\n It has an added aura due to the fact that it is Cameron’s first proper feature film since Titanic<\/a> (1997) and that so many details have been kept under wraps.<\/p>\n According to Wikipedia<\/a>, here is the basic premise:<\/p>\n Avatar is set during the 22nd century on a small moon called Pandora, which orbits a gas giant, and is inhabited by the tribal Na’vi, ten foot tall, blue humanoids that are peaceful unless attacked.<\/p>\n Humans cannot breathe Pandoran air, so they genetically engineer human\/Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars that can be controlled via a mental link.<\/p>\n A paralyzed Marine named Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) volunteers to exist as an Avatar on Pandora, falling in love with a Na’vi princess and becoming caught up in the conflict between her people and the human military that is consuming their world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Cameron introduced the footage by asking “Who wants to go to another planet?” before screening a few expositional sequences.<\/p>\n Apparently they showed the main character Jake Sully, played by Sam Worthington<\/a>, becoming an avatar (a blue-skinned human-alien hybrid) before segueing into a series of jungle battle scenes in which Worthington and co-star Zoe <\/a>Saldana<\/a> fight with prehistoric-looking creatures.<\/p>\n