IONCINEMA.com presents: Avatar (2009)

CAST AND CREW

Director

James Cameron

Cast (alphabetical order):

Stephen Lang

Michelle Rodriguez

Zoe Saldana

Sigourney Weaver

Sam Worthington

Avatar

Release Date: Dec 18, 2009 - Wide Release
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Film Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller, 3D
Country: United States

» IMDB.com

In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Sam Worthington will play an ex-Marine who ends up leading the planet's indigenous species in battle against the human colonizers. In the lead female role, Zoe Saldana will play a local woman with whom Worthington's character falls in love.

TRIVIA

This will employ CG techniques that Cameron explored in "Ghosts of the Abyss" and "Aliens of the Deep".

MOVIE NEWS ITEMS

2007-08-03
Variety reports hat Stephen Lang and Michelle Rodriguez will join the project - Lang plays a seasoned Marine Corps colonel who travels to the faraway planet Pandora to take charge of its troops. Rodriguez plays an ex-Marine pilot.

2007-01-09
Variety reports that James Cameron and 20th Century Fox will commence production which is slated to begin in April in Los Angeles, with Peter Jackson's New Zealand effects shop Weta doing the major effects work. Principal photography will be in 3-D.