While “Avatar” has rung up over a billion in ticket sales and won critical raves along with award nominations, many of us have thought the that story itself could have been something more.
Now an article at CHUD details the script for “Project 880” that could have been “Avatar.”
Here’s a sample of some of the differences (and yes, there will be SPOILERS!!)
– Earth and its environmental problems are explored
– We see Josh Sully’s Avatar being born
– It’s revealed the Avatar program exists to train Na’vi to be an indigenous workforce for the Corporation, since it’s so expensive to send human workers
– There are more humans, including a bioethics officer on the take, a video journalist, a head of the Avatar program and a second military dickwad
– There is an Avatar controller who is burnt out because his Avatar died with him in it. He committed Avatar suicide because he had fallen in love with a Na’vi girl who had been killed by the military
If you’d like more details, check out the full article HERE.
Best thing overheard at the movie. “Oh look hun, A entire race living off of Booberries.”
Tim
well hasnt Cameron said he will be making more of thiese films, maybe he will pick this up again and follow the other GREAT TREND, and make a prequal! which could be cool to see the lead up to the film and the ‘previous war’ with the Gandfathers or something that was mention in Avatar.
Roxaus’ comment is a much better idea than anything given in the above article.
While the original “scriptment” does sound more interesting than the final product, there’s one thing that bothers me. It’s the the fact that, in Cameron’s theoretical future, human civilization has learned nothing from 400-odd years of post-Industrial genre fiction, yet members of the military (who are apparently also hipsters) are familiar enough with genre meta-storytelling terminology to use “unobtainium” ironically. Which is not to say that I don’t enjoy a little meta-cleverness in my sci-fi. I do. (I mean, I’m a Doctor Who fan.) It just seems incongruous in this instance. Or I could be overthinking the whole thing. It’s been known to happen. :-}