Avatar rolls back into cinemas at the end of the month, and no doubt will eclipse $3 Billion when it re-arrives. James Cameron has been talking to the folks at MarketSaw about the extra 9 minutes of footage and said
It’s actually nine! [Extra minutes.] I added some since that press release. It’s all CG. None of it is kinda boring shots of people sitting around in offices at the base, drinking coffee. It’s all out in the rainforest, some of it is at night. There is a big hunt sequence that’s got a lot of flying, a lot of banshee stuff, riding direhorses, very high-energy, high-impact action. There’s a very powerful emotional scene towards the end that has been added back.
There’s some stuff where the Na’vi sort of counterattack after the bulldozers destroy the willowblade, that’s a night attack scene. And the aftermath of that, how the humans react to that and the steps leading to the war. There’s some stuff with Grace in the school in the jungle, there’s a creature called a stingbat which is brought back in [that one was in the video game ] as well as the sternbeast, which is the animal that they hunt. We see hundreds of those…There are some little bits that have been put back into the end battle. Little action beats, and a little bit added to the love scene, and some other night stuff. It’s all top-quality stuff, it’s all on par with the rest of the film.
I had no interest in going to see it again, but no….just ever so slightly I’m kinda going hmmmm
BONUS BIT – In choosing my son’s name, Cameron, there’s a little bit of influence in there from the Avatar Director. As if you didn’t guess that already ;)
