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Avatar (film series)

Avatar film series

Film information
Directed by	James Cameron
Produced by	James Cameron
Written by	James Cameron
Starring	Sam Worthington Zoë Saldaña
Studio	Lightstorm Entertainment
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release Date(s)	2009-present
Running Time	162 min / 171 min (special edition) / 178 min (extended cut)
Language	English
Budget	US$237,000,000^[1] (as of 2009)
Gross Revenue	world gross $2,777,461,400^[2]

Avatar is a planned series of science-fiction films produced by Lightstorm Entertainment and distributed by 20th Century Fox.

The first installment, Avatar, was released on December 18, 2009. The planned series was announced by 20th Century Fox on December 11, 2009, one week before Avatar was released to theaters. 20th Century Fox has confirmed the series on January 15, 2010.

1 Plot
- 1.1 Avatar
- 1.2 Avatar Sequel
2 Cast
3 External links
4 References

PlotEdit

AvatarEdit

Avatar was written and directed by James Cameron, and was set in the year 2154.

The story focuses on an epic conflict on Pandora, an inhabited Earth-sized moon of Polyphemus, one of three gas giants orbiting Alpha Centauri A. On Pandora, human colonists and the sentient humanoid indigenous inhabitants of Pandora, the Na'vi, engage in a war over the planet's resources and the latter's continued existence.The film's title refers to the remotely controlled, genetically engineered human-Na'vi bodies used by the film's human characters to interact with the natives.

The film was released theatrically starting on December 18, 2009. As of December 27, 2009, the film has officially budgeted at $237 million; other estimates put the cost at $280 – $310 million to produce and an estimated $150 million for marketing.

Avatar SequelEdit

James Cameron: "I've had a storyline in mind from the start - there are even scenes in 'Avatar' that I kept in because they lead to the sequel," Cameron said. "It just makes sense to think of it as a two or three film arc, in terms of the business plan. The CG plants and trees and creatures and the musculo-skeletal rigging of the main characters — that all takes an enormous amount of time to create. It'd be a waste not to use it again."