Avatar: New Long Trailer Friday, James Cameron Profiled

Posted by Neil Miller (neil@filmschoolrejects.com) on October 19, 2009

AvatarComicCon

Our friends over at Coming Soon have confirmed today that 20th Century Fox will debut a new trailer for James Cameron’s upcoming sci-fi opus Avatar this weekend in theaters (starting Friday, October 23rd). The kicker is that the trailer will be roughly 3 minutes and 30 seconds long. They are saying that this will be “the trailer,” which will give audiences the most story, the most visual stimulation and get them the most excited.

The trailer will likely run before films such as Saw VI, The Vampire’s Assistant and Astro Boy in 2D, to reach each film’s respective audience. As well, it will likely play with the re-release of Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D, which hits nationwide this week as well.

In other Avatar news, there is a wonderful piece on James Cameron’s career in The New Yorker this week. Inside, there are several great quotes from folks like George Lucas and Steven Spielberg about Cameron’s work ethic and the world he’s creating in the long-gestating Avatar. On Avatar, Lucas had this to say:

“Creating a universe is daunting. I’m glad Jim is doing it—there are only a few people in the world who are nuts enough to. I did it with ‘Star Wars,’ and now he’s trying to challenge that. It’s a lot of work. I do believe Jim will take this further out than anyone’s ever conceived of.”

It’s a fantastic article, which you can read for yourself here.

Avatar is in conventional and IMAX 3D theaters on December 18, 2009.


Read more articles by Neil Miller

« Previous Article | Next Article »

Related Topics:

Movie News, ,

Related Reading:

Your Ad Here

Comment Policy: No hate speech allowed. If you must argue, please debate intelligently. Comments containing selected keywords or outbound links will be put into moderation to help prevent spam. Film School Rejects reserves the right to delete comments and ban anyone who doesn't follow the rules. We also reserve the right to modify any curse words in your comments and make you look like an idiot. Thank You!

  • Aleric
    “Creating a universe is daunting. I’m glad Jim is doing it—there are only a few people in the world who are nuts enough to. I did it with ‘Star Wars,’ and now he’s trying to challenge that. It’s a lot of work. I do believe Jim will take this further out than anyone’s ever conceived of.”

    This kills me, Lucas didn't write Star Wars alone, he had help from another author, I want to say Leigh Brackett, not sure after all these years, nor did he create the SW universe alone. Most of the best aspects of the SW universe were created by fans and other authors over the years, Lucas simply incorperated most of them into the later films.
  • Rosie
    George Lucas DID create the "STAR WARS" universe. This Lucas bashing, which has been going on for a decade now, is getting ridiculous. Lucas was the one who had created the "STAR WARS" universe. However, he did hire others to either write or co-write the screenplays. As for Leigh Brackett's screenplay of "The Empire Strikes Back", Lucas ditched it, rewrote the screenplay with Lawrence Kasdan and gave both Brackett and Kasdan the screen credit.

    And instead of thinking how nice that Lucas was appreciative of Cameron's work, you used this opportunity to bash him. Jeez!
blog comments powered by Disqus