AVATAR

Concept Art For James Cameron’s Avatar

Shrouded in mystery and promising to be a revolutionary piece of cinema, James Cameron’s Avatar is more highly anticipated than…something highly anticipated.

The man stormed the Academy Awards in ‘97 with Titanic and hasn’t made a movie since, but now he’s returning to his Aliens/Terminator sci-fi roots and we finally have our first peek at the concept art for Cameron’s new world.

Whilst these are undeniably cool, they are faintly reminiscent of designs we’ve seen in recent films…the top picture in particular looks like one of the exoskeletons from The Matrix Revolutions in the middle of Skull Island from Jackson’s King Kong. But then, expectations are so much higher when every single filmmaker to have had a glimpse at the project literally promises that the movie will blow your mind.

How awesome will all this stuff look in 3D?

Avatar - First Behind The Scenes Picture

I don’t think that it would be very controversial for me to claim that James Cameron is the director of some of the greatest sci-fi action movies ever made including Aliens and Terminator 2. He is also the director of the most successful movie ever made: Titanic. Ever since Titanic, Cameron has taken a step back and concentrated exclusively on IMAX documentaries and is just now returning to narrative cinema with Avatar, an epic space opera that Cameron has been attempting to get made for a number of years.

The LA TIMES has the first official AVATAR behind the scenes image. It doesn’t show much, and I’m hesitant to state that what is behind Cameron and Sam is “Set” because as far as I know - that’s just the specialized transport vehicle insides that he rides to work in each day. BUT - having said that… it does FEEL like a Cameron bit of Science Fiction set work. Go click above and then talk about AVATAR fucking your eyes in 2009.

Just so you don’t have to go through all the effort of clicking a link, I have inserted the picture below.

I know there’s not much to go on here but what are your first impressions? To me it looks very reminiscent of Aliens which is definitely not necessarily a bad thing, but it is certainly not what was hoping for from this movie. I hope he has not been pressured to make the movie more commercially viable.