James Cameron talks AVATAR.

You may have seen the following image on several film related news sites and blogs over the past 24 hours. I didn't run it originally because I thought it was fake, looking way too much like an out of print sci-fi novel than an multi million dollar special effects movie...

And it would seem my hunch was correct. James Cameron says so himself on AICN, and he also gives us an update on the status of his next film - due out Christmas time 2009!

Things are going well on Avatar, or at least as well as can be expected on such a ridiculously complex project. We've wrapped principal, and most of the live action portion of the movie is already cut. It's starting to look and sound like a movie. I'm ecstatic with the performances and the look. The cast chemistry worked out perfectly. I'm in New Zealand right now, working on effects, while Steve Quale shoots some second unit. We've worked together a lot (he did the engine room scenes on "Titanic", plus co-directed "Aliens of the Deep" with me) and he's the only guy I trust to shoot stuff for me, especially in 3D. We still have a little performance capture work to do with Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana in March, when we get her back from Star Trek (she's Uhura -- but of course you already knew that.) And we have a couple of days with Stephen Lang in April or May, to shoot his character's last scene, which is so technically difficult it will take us until then to figure out how to do it.

More AVATAR speak HERE.