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Avatar's Color Controversy
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The movie studio that produced the mega-blockbuster, "
Avatar", had no problem with the film's alien race being blue -- but it turns out they were initially concerned about the Na'vi being too green.
According to director
James Cameron, '20th Century Fox' had some initial apprehension that his $2 billion-dollar-baby delivered the wrong kind of message -- the message of environmental conservation.
Cameron recollects the studio's warning as being: "We really like the story. It's great. But, well, is there a way to not have so much of this tree-hugging, 'Ferngully' stuff in it ?"
The famously exacting director wasn't going to give up on the central point of the "
Avatar" story. "I said, 'Not with me making it',"
Cameron said. "Because that was my purpose in making the film. I wanted to make an environmentally conscious mainstream movie".
"FernGully: The Last Rainforest" was a 1992 animated film -- also released by '20th Century Fox' -- featuring the voice of
Tim Curry as the villain who gains his power from pollution.
Instead of backing down,
Cameron reveled in the environmental themes leading up to the climactic conclusion of "
Avatar". "I think there's something amazingly satisfying when the hammerheads come out of the forest and start mowing down all the bad security enforcers. Nature gets to fight back", he said. "It's 'Death Wish' for environmentalists. When did nature ever get to fight back in a movie ?"
Cameron concedes that '20th Century Fox' wouldn't have been the only studio with concerns: "To be fair… any of the other studios would have said the same thing. 'Fox' ended up being enormously supportive and wrote this huge check. But they would have been much more comfortable if I had eliminated what they called the 'tree-hugging' elements".
James Cameron's environmental concerns can be attributed to being a parent of three young children and the fact he would like them to have a world to grow up in: "I think there's a way to live and raise your kids with a set of values that teaches them the importance of hard work, the importance of respecting other people and the importance of respecting nature. And that it's not this consumer society where you buy something and then throw it away when you get the next new thing, filling up huge landfills with plastic and electronics".
Cameron's environmentally friendly message has not, as the studio was initially concerned, negatively affected box-office receipts. "
Avatar" has so far grossed over $
2.2 billion worldwide – which is well over a billion ahead of the ticket sales for its closest
Best Picture Oscar rival, "
The Hurt Locker". That film (which also has an arguably controversial message in its coverage of soldiers in Iraq) was directed by his former wife,
Kathryn Bigelow, and has only taken in $
12.6 million in domestic box-office sales.
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Cameron Penning Avatar Novel
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At a Tuesday night reception in New York City, director
James Cameron confirmed the buzz that he's writing a novel based on the story of his box-office-record-setting film, "
Avatar". And he believes the book may, in some respects, be even more successful than his movies have been. Why ?
"There are things you can do in books that you can’t do with films",
Cameron explained.
The director said he first thought of penning the "
Avatar" novel during filming of the breakthrough film: "I told myself, if it made money, I’d write a book". "
Avatar", of course, did make money. A lot of it. At last count it had made more than $
2.3 billion worldwide.
Cameron said the book will go into much greater detail about the worlds and "interior monologues" of the characters he created.
Before
Cameron clarified his plans the Internet had been ablaze with rumors of an "
Avatar" book based on comments made by "
Avatar" producer
Jon Landau. The producer also hinted that the story of Pandora and its blue-skinned people will also have a sequel – or sequels, plural.
"
Jim's going to write a novel himself, based on
Avatar",
Landau revealed to 'MTV', saying that
Cameron's vision of the book "is a big, epic, story that fills in a lot of things that we won't have time to do in the movie; maybe even in sequels".
Landau continued: "I think it would be something that leads up to telling the story of the movie, but would go into much greater depth of all the stories that we didn't have time to deal with".
Cameron himself, in a January interview with 'MTV', discussed the possibility of a sequel. "I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script".
For the miniscule number of you who haven't yet seen "
Avatar", the film takes place on the aforementioned
Pandora, which is a moon that orbits a gas planet,
Polyphemus. Until the news of a prequel, speculation has focused on sequels that could take place on the other moons that orbit the gas giant.
**************************************************
Avatar's Color Controversy
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The movie studio that produced the mega-blockbuster, "Avatar", had no problem with the film's alien race being blue -- but it turns out they were initially concerned about the Na'vi being too green.
According to director James Cameron, '20th Century Fox' had some initial apprehension that his $2 billion-dollar-baby delivered the wrong kind of message -- the message of environmental conservation.
Cameron recollects the studio's warning as being: "We really like the story. It's great. But, well, is there a way to not have so much of this tree-hugging, 'Ferngully' stuff in it ?"
The famously exacting director wasn't going to give up on the central point of the "Avatar" story. "I said, 'Not with me making it'," Cameron said. "Because that was my purpose in making the film. I wanted to make an environmentally conscious mainstream movie".
"FernGully: The Last Rainforest" was a 1992 animated film -- also released by '20th Century Fox' -- featuring the voice of Tim Curry as the villain who gains his power from pollution.
Instead of backing down, Cameron reveled in the environmental themes leading up to the climactic conclusion of "Avatar". "I think there's something amazingly satisfying when the hammerheads come out of the forest and start mowing down all the bad security enforcers. Nature gets to fight back", he said. "It's 'Death Wish' for environmentalists. When did nature ever get to fight back in a movie ?"
Cameron concedes that '20th Century Fox' wouldn't have been the only studio with concerns: "To be fair… any of the other studios would have said the same thing. 'Fox' ended up being enormously supportive and wrote this huge check. But they would have been much more comfortable if I had eliminated what they called the 'tree-hugging' elements".
James Cameron's environmental concerns can be attributed to being a parent of three young children and the fact he would like them to have a world to grow up in: "I think there's a way to live and raise your kids with a set of values that teaches them the importance of hard work, the importance of respecting other people and the importance of respecting nature. And that it's not this consumer society where you buy something and then throw it away when you get the next new thing, filling up huge landfills with plastic and electronics".
Cameron's environmentally friendly message has not, as the studio was initially concerned, negatively affected box-office receipts. "Avatar" has so far grossed over $2.2 billion worldwide – which is well over a billion ahead of the ticket sales for its closest Best Picture Oscar rival, "The Hurt Locker". That film (which also has an arguably controversial message in its coverage of soldiers in Iraq) was directed by his former wife, Kathryn Bigelow, and has only taken in $12.6 million in domestic box-office sales.
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Cameron Penning Avatar Novel
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At a Tuesday night reception in New York City, director James Cameron confirmed the buzz that he's writing a novel based on the story of his box-office-record-setting film, "Avatar". And he believes the book may, in some respects, be even more successful than his movies have been. Why ?
"There are things you can do in books that you can’t do with films", Cameron explained.
The director said he first thought of penning the "Avatar" novel during filming of the breakthrough film: "I told myself, if it made money, I’d write a book". "Avatar", of course, did make money. A lot of it. At last count it had made more than $2.3 billion worldwide.
Cameron said the book will go into much greater detail about the worlds and "interior monologues" of the characters he created.
Before Cameron clarified his plans the Internet had been ablaze with rumors of an "Avatar" book based on comments made by "Avatar" producer Jon Landau. The producer also hinted that the story of Pandora and its blue-skinned people will also have a sequel – or sequels, plural.
"Jim's going to write a novel himself, based on Avatar", Landau revealed to 'MTV', saying that Cameron's vision of the book "is a big, epic, story that fills in a lot of things that we won't have time to do in the movie; maybe even in sequels".
Landau continued: "I think it would be something that leads up to telling the story of the movie, but would go into much greater depth of all the stories that we didn't have time to deal with".
Cameron himself, in a January interview with 'MTV', discussed the possibility of a sequel. "I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script".
For the miniscule number of you who haven't yet seen "Avatar", the film takes place on the aforementioned Pandora, which is a moon that orbits a gas planet, Polyphemus. Until the news of a prequel, speculation has focused on sequels that could take place on the other moons that orbit the gas giant.
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