Director James Cameron (Terminator) hasn’t had a real blockbuster since his awesome release of Titanic. However, if rumor is true and gossip is money, then all that may be about to change.

Jo-blo and others have been reporting for the past 7-months that Cameron has been doing casting calls for the flick Battle Angel and Alita. Now it appears that this may have been cannon-fotter just to throw things off of his real project only mysteriously known as Project 880, and that Project 880 is really a codeword for Avatar.

According to a source for Jo-blo named “Mike” shooting for Avatar will begin this spring on location at FOX Baja.

So what is Avatar about? First, according to “Mike” Project 880/Avatar is something Cameron has been wanting to set into motion since the early days of Titanic, but for various reasons was not able to get all the resources needed for the pic. Avatar’s lead character Zuleika is a Na’vi woman, young, lithe as a cat, with a long, slender neck, muscular shoulders, and nubile breasts… a statuesque vision. Let’s not mince words here… she is devastatingly beautiful. For a girl with a tail. In human age she would be in her late teens.

This description is suppose to have come from Cameron’s own treatment.

What makes this so interesting to those of us who keep track of such things is that is precisely the kind of female actress that the casting call sheet was looking for in the Battle Angel auditions: A Female Lead, approximately 16 to mid-20’s in age, any ethnicity. Someone who can move and behave with confidence and a sense of nobility. Who is lithe as a cat, athletic and agile; warrior-like with graceful movement, an ear for languages and dialects are essential. So, you can see why this may lead some to project-out that Battle Angel is really Cameron’s Project 880, or “Avatar.”

While, I will concede that the possibility exists that this may well be what is occuring here, I must also take into account that many years have passed since Titanic and Cameron’s original concept for a future film of this type. He has had plenty of time to do re-evaluations of his original premise, with rewrites and changes to his original storyline. It could just be a simple matter of bringing his first thought up-to-date with added ideas, change of title and so forth. We are talking about Hollywood afterall and the future will certainly tell the tale.