Avatar's Pandora
James Cameron's worldwide blockbuster Avatar will be released on DVD/Blu-ray tomorrow, April 22. The Los Angeles Times is doing its bit to promote the release, featuring an interview with the filmmaker.
Here are a couple of choice tidbits from the q&a with Patrick Kevin Day:
- Avatar should be rereleased in August, with six additional minutes featuring lots of WETA work.
- Avatar's sequel, which Cameron expects will be made in less time and for less money than the original, will have some of its focus on Pandora's ocean, "which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative."
And here's the best Cameron quote:
"I think every model we should use in evaluating any environmental project moving forward should be: Is it good business and is it good for the environment? Because there’s this idea promoted by the right and by special interest groups that you have to choose. You can either have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can’t do both at the same time. That’s ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world."
Photo: WETA / 20th Century Fox