Steven Soderbergh and Zoe Sladana tell us what they think of James Camerons AVATAR
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- By drvenkman
There are a couple of people that have seen some footage of James Cameron’s Avatar and it looks like James Cameron is once again going to wow us with another incredible sci-fi film. This is a movie that Cameron has wanted to make for over 10 years and it is finally getting made.
The first report comes from one of the stars of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Avatar’ Zoe Saldana via MTV. In the interview she talks about how amazing it was to work with J.J. Abrams and James Cameron. She also talks about how ‘Avatar’ was the most physical film she has done so far.
“‘Avatar’ by far is the most physically strenuous film I’ve ever done. A role had never challenged me to the point where it freaked me out and scared me. And ‘Avatar’ definitely did that.”
Sounds pretty hardcore. When she was asked if she had seen the film she tried no to be too excited.
“I have, yes, I can’t curse so I’ll just say it looks nice. What I really want to say is going to get bleeped out.”
That didn’t stop Steven Soderbergh from throwing out the bad language to commingsoon. While talking about the disappointment of how benchmark films such as ‘The Godfather’ don’t get made anymore, he revealed that he though James Cameron’s ‘Avatar’ would be one of these benchmark movies saying:
“I’ve seen some stuff and holy sh*t. It’s the craziest sh*t ever. That could negate everything I just said.”
So here we have two confirmations from people that ‘Avatar’ could possibly live up to the hype that it is building up around it. I can’t wait to see
Sources:MTV , commingsoon
This is to my knowledge the first stereoscopic movie filmed in true 3D with high end digital cameras. traditionally its been on film for imax. I hope they will use shutter glasses in theatres with high refresh rates. It would be good if cameron was using the red one cameras and film it in 4k resolution.
I love 24 frame capture and playback, but i think with cameron's dislike of the slow capture. it would be phenominally impacting if it was filmed at 60 or 72 frames per second. But that would limit the film to digital cinemas. if done at 72 frames than you cut it to 24 frames like normal.
I saw terminator salvation in a new digital theater in sydney, australia. Picture very sharp. only issues that leave film superior is the colour depth, resolution and detail in dark scenes. there simply isn't enough light to show black detail. I am unbiased as i marathon 2 celluloid films followed by a digital.
Star trek (celluloid) and terminator salvation (digital) had same adds and the film won hands down. film colour saturation was far better, black detail was clearer and visible. Ice age 3 detail was slightly compressed like furr on animals and i think this is due to the pixels not quite resolving these tiny details.
Back to the subject matter: Cameron seems know a good actor when he sees it. sam worthington is a great choice and will bring a recognisable human being rather than gung-ho i have done this all before.
I agree. Higher frame rates are better, I hope James Cameron shoots his next film at 60fps instead of 24fps