Looks like we are going to have to wait a little longer to see
James Cameron's return to feature length movies.
The Independant are reporting that his long awaited sci-fi movie
Avatar will be pushed back from a summer 2008 release to summer 2009. This is Cameron told the press...
"The film requires me to create an entirely new alien culture and language, and for that I want 'photo-real' CGI characters. Sophisticated enough 'performance-capture' animation technology is only coming on stream now. I've spent the last 14 months doing performance-capture work - the actor performs the character and then we animate it"."I always want to find something mentally engaging. I'll spend many months completing the special effects on Avatar, and it will not be released until the summer of 2009. It's quite a challenge - and for that reason, I embrace it." Cameron's last movie was way back in 1997 with
Titanic which if you hadn't heard was kinda succesful. Taking in over $1.8 billion worldwide, the romantic disaster movie is the highest grossing film of all time. Since then he has played around with new 3D HD film technology for the shooting of a couple of documentaries and he now talks as if he is ready to put his new found techniques into wowing us again. Sure it sucks having to wait longer for a movie, but there seems to be a lot of good stuff coming out in 2008 which will more than keep us occupied. source -
the independant,
chud,
coming soon