After winning an Oscar for directing “Titanic,” James Cameron has pretty much disappeared from the Hollywood radar. The director, who brought us the classic movies “The Terminator” and “The Abyss,” has spent the last several years working on the new movie “Avatar.”
The movie will hit theaters later this year in time for the holiday season. And the director will debut 20 minutes of footage from the new movie today as part of the Comic Con panel on “Avatar.”
“I think for this type of film, presenting it to a concentrated mass of passionate fans, it’s perfect,” Cameron told USA Today. “I’ve spent four years of my life on this project. We’ve got the (goods).”
And while fans will get to see the footage, don’t expect Cameron to explain how he created the visual marvels you see on screen.
“You’re not going to find ‘behindmself look like an animal.”
Cameron used a new technology for Avatar that allowed him to see computer-generated creatures on his camera while filming live actors.
“It’s a different experience for me now,” he said. “It was familiar in burs
the scenes’ extras on the DVD,” Cameron said. “I think the movies aren’t the big, wonderful mysteries they used to be. I don’t want to see some guy in a black leotard and dots showing me how he made hits, like shooting actors. Then we’d shoot for 50 days standing out in a big empty warehouse.”
Cameron says that one pressure he doesn’t face: having to stay true to the source material.
“We can’t screw up a 40-year-old tradition like a comic book,” he says. “We created this world from scratch. I’ve felt like a lawyer preparing for a major case. You spend all this time, rehearsing, rewriting. I’m ready to make my case.”
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