“(Not) Coming to the Theater Near You.”
February 18, 2010
Several of our fans have reminded us of this story via Facebook and email recently. For those that still haven’t read it, we thought we would make it easy and post it here.
We frequently run a feature called “(Not) Coming to a Theater Near You,” about potentially classic or blockbuster movies that never got made. Once in a while, however, these movies emerge from years of Hollywood purgatory and do actually end up getting made. And how. Here is one we said in 2004′s Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader was “not coming” then eventually did. It’s called Avatar.
AVATAR (1999)
Great Idea: After Titanic made $1 billion and won 11 Academy Awards, director James Cameron could make any movie he wanted—and this was the one he wanted to make. Set in the year 2040, Avatar follows a paralyzed war veteran named Josh on a mining expedition to the distant planet Pandora, where, through a computerized psychic link, he inhabits the body of a purple-skinned, nine-foot-tall, ammonia-breathing Pandoran.
Kiss of Doom: Cameron wanted to use a cast of ultra-lifelike computer-created actors. Plus, most of the special effects needed to render Pandora would have had to be invented. Avatar’s budget: a staggering $400 million. No studio would fund it, so the movie was scrapped.
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i sat down and found this page about it i like directly opened to the page 435. i was like reading it and i am like clueless at first but then i am like wow that is a movie and it happens to be one of my favorites
! so i had to leave a comment or somthing
You have the magic touch, Dixon. And you HAD to leave a comment, no doubt about it. We appreciate it. Come on back and talk to us any time. (Did you see the film?)
Thom at the BRI
Guys correction I believe it’s based in 2154 every log he keeps says the date xx/xx/2154
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