James Cameron Talks AVATAR

When I’m right, I’m right. This morning I posted a new featurette for James Cameron’s AVATAR featuring a profile of Colonel Quaritch and some new footage from the film along with the heads up that there’d be a bucketload of goodies released in the build up to the film’s release.

Now, just a few short hours later we have our first clip – TWO new clips from the film, courtesy of 60 Minutes. The interview it

Featuring an interview with director James Cameron and more new footage, the clip is certainly worth a watch if you’re a CGI fan, 3D cinema nut or a fan of Avatar itself. Check them out in all their glory below:

A paraplegic ex-marine war veteran is unwillingly sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, only to find himself battling humankind alongside the planet’s indigenous Na’vi race in this ambitious digital 3-D sci-fi epic from Academy Award-winning Titanic director James Cameron. The film, which marks Cameron’s first dramatic feature since 1997’s Titanic, will be shot on the proprietary FUSION digital 3-D cameras developed by Cameron in collaboration with Vince Pace, and will offer a groundbreaking mix of live-action dramatic performances and computer-generated effects.

Australian actor Sam Worthington stars as the reluctant human settler, Jake Sully, with actress Zoe Saldana signing on to portray the local woman who enters into a romantic affair with the hero. The revolutionary motion-capture system created for the film allows the facial expressions of actors to be captured as a virtual camera system enables them to see what their computer-generated counterparts will be seeing in the film, and Peter Jackson’s Oscar-winning Weta Digital visual-effects house has been hired to superviseAvatar’s complex visual effects. Joel Moore, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, and Michelle Rodriguez round out the cast.

US Release: 18th December 2009
UK Release: 17th December 2009
Australian Release: 17th December 2009

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