This kind of day doesn’t come along often.
Director James Cameron, who has brought us some of the best science fiction and fantasy movies ever made with The Terminator, T-2: Judgment Day, Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies, and Titanic, is starting to ramp up his marketing and publicity for Avatar.
What is Avatar, you may ask?
Avatar is a forthcoming science fiction movie that Cameron has had percolating in his head for 14 years and which has been in production for four years of production.
In movie terms, that is a long time. And with a genius like James Cameron at the helm and given all of that time to perfect a movie, look out December movie going populace! Avatar takes place on the planet Pandora, where human explorers put their minds into artificial bodies, or avatars, to interact with the native population. That population: 10-foot-tall blue creatures called the Na’vi.
While at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, Cameron initially revealed footage from his sci-fi epic. People were in awe of what they saw.
This week, he’s letting a nationwide but still selective audience get their glimpse at what he’s been working on. Starting Monday at noon PT, free tickets were distributed on the film’s official website — avatarmovie.com — for screening of footage on IMAX 3D screens across the country on August 21st.
Once finished, we won’t get another viewing until the official trailer is released.
And it is a long time before the movie hits screens on December 18th!
To gain tickets to the advance minutes-long screening, visit avatarmovie.com.
Seating is very limited! Good luck!
Daaaaang! It's already sold out here in San Antonio! Bummer. I really have no idea what this movie is about. I saw the towering mech suit display at the Comic Con and despite the constant confusion it caused ("Wait, Avatar the James Cameron thing or Avatar as in The Last Airbender?") it has sufficiently piqued my curiosity. Sigh. I guess I don't mind waiting until December.
Yeah, I don't think ANYONE knows what it is really about. I think James Cameron is going to pull a fast one on everyone and it's going to be a great flick but NOTHING like what we think.
I can't wait to go see these few minutes on Friday. I am lucky enough to live only a mile or two from one of the IMAX theaters showing the extra footage. I'll definitely be reporting on it on Friday or Saturday. Whoo!!