Today The New York Times unveiled a new photo from James Cameron’s new 3-D sci-fi epic, Avatar.
Earlier today Novi181, a commenter on /Film had this to say, but was later proved (somewhat) wrong:
I am a production assistant on this movie, I cannot disclose too much since I am under a contract not to say anything. First off, this is a space shuttle, as you can tell, the green screen is the front window and that circular area in the middle is the control station. Much like the movie Alien, the pod that James is looking at is a hyperbaric chamber where the crew sleeps while traveling at light speed. Since this movie takes place in a epic mystic future on a distant planet, its interesting to see how James mixes space and fantasy in this 3-D epic event. I feel I have said too much, but I have been an avid reader of slashfilm for sometime now and I really like the work you guys put into this blog. I hope this was some insight to the movie since this is all I can contractually say, I know the official trailer will be released with Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen… Woops, now I’ve said too much, but thank god the internet can be anonymous!!!
The Film Stage reader Cames replied with this:
Okay look let’s get the facts straight. I didn’t have any lofty position in the Avatar project like this alleged novi, but I did work on construction. I did not work on this particular set but still laid my own eyes on it while another construction team fabbed it. (I was on most of MODS fabrications – science mod, cmod, etc.) I am not under any contract, my company is under non-disclosure contract. I had to sign nothing, simply instructed it’s confidential.
This is NOT the space shuttle, it’s not even an aircraft, it is a lab. The green screen is not the backdrop for ship portals to see space, it’s going to be CGI’d as a terrarium backdrop where they will have CGI samples of the planet’s fauna. Novi is correct about the chamber, but it does not belong on that stage set, it just happened to be there at the time, I know because I worked on the chambers on the set it belongs to. Film volumes are cluttered people, crammed with props, you can’t keep everything tidy and sorted all the time. It was likely moved there for eye candy symmetry for that particular still. The blue-gray color theme is pretty much the common theme for all MODS and higher grade craft interiors.
The Avatar trailer date has not, I repeat not – been decided. Ther is no release date yet. Apparently there is studio execs and production crew internal squabble about the date, going on. The studio wants it sooner and production wants more time for a quality trailer.
You get no cheesy woops from me, I just can’t stand these blowhards popping online spreading jacked up information.
So take this with a grain of salt, but it is some information that previously did not know. I myself can not wait for this film and can’t wait for some more info.
What do you think of the set photo? Anticipating Avatar?