Avatar 2…3 and 4
I just learned that I will be visiting James Cameron on the set as he starts filming the three sequels to Avatar, the highest grossing movie of all time.
I have to think of a way to make myself useful on the set. Perhaps I can support Neytiri’s virtual tail if she needs an assist, to um, stay in character between scenes.
People in the deep submarine community told me that Avatar 2 will have an underwater sequence so Cameron can leverage his cost of diving to the bottom of the ocean, much like he did with the robotic subs for Titanic.
It makes perfect sense based on what I heard him say earlier, when I took the Wikipedia photo of him (http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/4357736383 )
“At 15, I decided I wanted to be a scuba diver. I lived in Canada, 600 miles from the ocean. So I went to Buffalo across the border to get certified, in a YMCA swimming pool, in the middle of the winter. I had never seen the ocean, and first saw it two years later when we moved to California.”
“And now I have spent 3000 hours underwater, with 500 of that in subs.”
“Secretly I wanted to dive to the wreck of the Titanic, and that’s why I made the movie. I talked them into funding an expedition. They did not know it, but that’s the truth. And then I found myself 2.5 miles underwater in a Russian sub, and it was like my sci fi dreams.”
“Avatar was 4.5 year period. We became family. The ocean organisms came to land for Pandora.”
He also has a fascination with space:
“In Apollo, they are famous for saying failure is not an option. But failure has to be an option. In art and exploration, it’s a leap of faith. In whatever you’re doing, failure is an option. But fear is not.”
This treatment by PhotonQuantique in Paris.
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