Is Avatar just Pocahontas in CG?

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STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 4:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Bytemite:

I made up a species of blue skinned aliens for the Star Wars tabletop RPG three years ago called the Nanba with a mindboggling similarity to the Na'vi.

Last year, the first season of Clone Wars had a blue-skinned, yellow-eyed alien race from the Moon of Pantora....

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

BYTEMITE

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 4:45 PM

Hmm, that sounds like a leak from the Avatar set to me, or someone in the know giving a wink and a nod.

Now that I think of it, my race was based on the night elves from World of Warcraft, only I wanted them to look more alien, and I didn't really like any of the existing Star Wars cat races, so... There you go. Then I added in nanotech to make them scifi.

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:15 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:

Last year, the first season of Clone Wars had a blue-skinned, yellow-eyed alien race from the Moon of Pantora....

Since LucasFilm worked on some of the animation on Avatar I can only assume they were giving a nod.

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STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:35 PM

I'd call it more of a coincidence. ILM only worked on the last scene in Avatar, and came in late at that.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:39 PM

But I think LucasFilm has been involve for the past couple of years. I saw them working on it when I went last January and they had been there a few months at that point.

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STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 7:57 PM

Perhaps, but they CW series had completed the first season before airing, so that'd put it back a while too.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

MANGOLO

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 8:03 PM

For fun:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/strange-frame/182133437902

STORYMARK

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 8:28 PM

I was JUST about to post that. Well done.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

OUT2THEBLACK

Tuesday, January 5, 2010 10:10 PM

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Originally posted by JaynezTown:
its as different as cowboys and spacemen...oh wait

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni1372717/

'...News regarding the adaptation of Fred Van Lente and Andrew Foley's "Cowboys and Aliens" has put fans of the sci-fi western source material on something of a seesaw...

According to The Daily Beast, however, there's a few details fans can count on: Favreau is on board to direct and the Dreamworks film begins shooting this July.

Of course, there's still a bit of room for speculation, with Tdb wondering if the more than $1 billion to-date box office success of James Cameron's "Avatar" might entice filmmakers to render "Cowboys and Aliens" in 3-D.'

http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/01/05/cowboys-and-aliens-to-begin-shoot
ing-this-july-possibly-in-3-d/

CHRISISALL

Saturday, February 13, 2010 11:29 PM

Just saw it- the 3D was okay, but I liked it better as a movie than a gimmick. Given a choice, I think I'd buy the 2D version on DVD. But it might have both.
Anyway, excellent Pocahontas remake, just visually stunning (3D aside).

Only change I would have like to have seen:

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I wanted to see the lead character's tube smashed while he was still jacked into his alien body; I think that would have been a more believable way of sticking him in it without the magical-roots mumbo.

But that just may be me.

The laughing Chrisisall

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