Grace Augustine, worked alongside the set designers and a professor of plant biology for an intensive on Pandoran flora and fauna. Sigourney Weaver, who played exobiologist Dr. All the actors involved in this film endured character specific training and research to truly know their roles. Principal shooting began in April 2007, using the physical sets of a Los Angeles aircraft stage and the digital studios over in Wellington. It wasn't until James Cameron started shopping the film around to other studios, such as Disney who almost picked up the project, when Fox concretely agreed to make this film happen, and gave Cameron the concrete budget: $237 million, and $150 million for marketing the project. While that film did turn out to be a huge success, their fears of lightning not striking twice left them tentative on Avatar. They had experiences with Cameron in the past, his unwavering ambition had caused them a lot of headaches during Titanic's production, resulting in an overblown budget and increasing delays. However, with all this preparation going on, the studio at the helm, Fox, became less and less keen.
While there were developments going on from the world of Pandora, Cameron was also keen to bring in the developments of technology that had happened since he first came up with the idea of this film, bringing on the famed visual effects company Weta FX, and rolling out his own Reality Camera System that would allow him to film in stereoscopic-3D. While the story on screen is regarded as pretty average, there is much more to see when peaking behind the curtain, with a production history spanning 15 years It contains revolutionary techniques of motion capture and computer-generated imagery, but no one seems to remember very much about it in terms of character or plot. With a current box office of $2.908 billion it is the highest grossing film ever made. Not bad for what is colloquially referred to as 'Pocahontas with Blue People.'Īvatar has always been something of an enigma to many in the cultural zeitgeist. In that time, Cirque du Soleil created a show based on the film, Toruk - The First Flight, that ran from 2015 to 2019, and the rather successful attraction at Walt Disney World, Pandora: The World of Avatar, that opened in 2017. This has been a long-delayed sequel, with director James Cameron planning a multi-film franchise since Avatarwas first released in 2009, not to say there was radio silence. Avatar: The Way of The Water is, as of writing this article, set to release in December 16th, 2022.
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