Avatars

Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 18, 2009 by 20th Century Fox. This is Lightstorm Entertainment’s latest project.

The storys protagonist, Jake Sully, is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will give him a healthy body. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush rainforest-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Navi. They are a sentient humanoid race that humans consider primitive, but are actually more evolutionarily advanced than humans. Standing three meters tall, with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Navi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora’s forests in search of valuable minerals, the Navi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.

Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Navi hybrids known as Avatars. The Avatars are living, breathing bodies that are controlled by a human ‘driver’ through a technology that links the drivers mind to their Avatar body. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake can be whole once again. Sent deep into Pandora’s jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora’s beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Navi female, Neytiri, whose beauty is matched by her ferocity in battle.

Over time, Jake integrates himself into Neytiri’s clan, and begins to fall in love with her. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth, and the Navi forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

Cast

Sam Worthington: Jake Sully
Zoë Saldaña: Neytiri
Sigourney Weaver: Dr. Grace Augustine
Michelle Rodriguez: Trudy Chacon
Stephen Lang: Col. Quaritch
Joel David Moore: Norm Spellman
Giovanni Ribisi: Selfridge
CCH Pounder: Moha
Dileep Rao: Dr. Max Patel
Matt Gerald: Lyle Wainfleet
Laz Alonso: Tsu’Tey
Peter Mensah: Akwey

Directed by James Cameron
Release date: December 18, 2009
Running time: More than 150 minutes estimated
Budget: US$237 million

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Avatar Movie Review, by Anthony J. Gomez, The Movie Messenger

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Back in 1996, James Cameron announced that he would be creating a film called Avatar, a science-fiction epic that would feature photo-realistic, computer-generated characters.
He had a treatment for the film, which already defined many things, including the Na’vi a primitive alien race standing ten feet tall with shining blue skin, living in harmony with their jungle-covered planet Pandora.
Soon after, though, Avatar had to be shelved as the technology of the time could not satisfy the creative desires of the director.
Fast-forward to October 2009: Dan Lemmon, FX supervisor and Andy Jones, animation director at Weta Digital have about two weeks left of visual effects production for Avatar. The near-900 strong crew spanned across six locations are practically working around the clock to achieve what was deemed impossible a decade earlier.
Weta Digital, the New Zealand studio responsible for the groundbreaking visual effects in The Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is taking VFX to a new level of creative and technological excellence.
For Avatar, the studio has created over 1,800 stereoscopic, photo-realistic visual effects shots, many of them of the Na’vi as ‘hero’ characters. In addition to digital characters and environments are the machines, vehicles, equipment and everything else that help blur the line between imagination and reality.
“We’re not just talking about the environment, but the creatures, the machines and the vehicles that people use to get around. The whole world is unique and because of the way James Cameron approaches things, everything seems functional and believable. Compared to other sci-fi fantasy genre films there’s a certain level of realism just in the design that makes it very believable,” says VFX supervisor Dan Lemmon.

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For more Avatar videos, go to http://news.discovery.com/videos/discovery-news-technology/. For his new movie Avatar, director James Cameron took real world science into the outer reaches of science fiction. Jorge Ribas finds out how he created the alien wildlife of planet Pandora.

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SamWorthingtonP1http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/samworthingtonp1EntertainmentSam, Worthington, James, Cameron, and, Zoe, Saldana, Avatar, Funny, interviewSam Worthington James Cameron and Zoe Saldana Avatar Funny interview

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Film Clip – “When You Are Ready”

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For more videos, go to http://news.discovery.com/videos/avatar-making-the-movie/. Avatar’s new performance capture technology could revolutionize the way directors, actors and animators collaborate to create whole new worlds on screen. Director James Cameron explains the process.

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A chat with Animation Supervisor Richard Baneham about working on Avatar.

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http://www.wtvonline.net AVATAR takes us to a spectacular new world beyond our imagination, where a reluctant hero embarks on a journey of redemption and discovery, as he leads a heroic battle to save a civilization.

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From the director of Titanic, here comes another outstanding film Avatar

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