Avatar
sets new precedent for CGI in film.
Remaining silent since creating the
biggest grossing film of all time –Titanic, James Cameron returns
to the big screen with what critics are calling the future of filming.
Avatar, the story of a disabled, US marine traveling to a foreign
moon Pandora in search of a rare mineral only to encounter the peaceable,
10-feet tall, blue Na’vi people, cost a whopping $237 million to make
and $150 million to market.
Conceiving the film around the same
time that Titanic hit theatres, Cameron waited until CGI was
advanced enough to bring his baby to life. Sitting on the project for
14 years, Cameron hopes Avatar
will become the next Star Wars trilogy. How far apart any future
films will be, is yet to be seen as the film took 4 years to create.
Labelled the “most expensive and
technically ambitious film” of all time, the film has received
mostly favourable responses from critics and could knock 2012
out of the running for 2010’s visual-effects Academy Award. The technology
used to create the 3D version of the film, sets the bar for future films
in the sci-fi genre.
