James Cameron is a master at his craft. He can promote the hell out of his movies incessantly years before and after their release. He recently had an opportunity to show off his skills while speaking with Fox News and decided to discuss Avatar, mention Terminator, and briefly talk about the frustration of converting Titanic to 3D.
Source: AICN
We’re shooting two films back-to-back, so I’m writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a free-film story arc – not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I’m pretty excited about that,”
“We’re doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We’re creating a new facility in Manhattan Beach so everybody that’s not already dead is coming back.”
There’s always an expectation. I had to deal with that after ‘The Terminator’ back in 1984. All of a sudden I had a big hit movie and it was ‘what are you doing next?’ But my job is take the audience on a journey and entertain them,” he said. “The second I am sitting down writing, I just go to Pandora. I don’t think about that stuff, about standing on a red carpet. It has its own life, really. The characters have their own lives.
And sticking to the Terminator subject he mentioned discussions with Governator about more Terminator:
“He and I have spoken a lot,” the director said. “You have to stand by your friends. He and I have talked and I said, ‘look man, I stand by you.’ He doesn’t need my advice. He knows how to manage his image and to say what he needs to say, and he’s going to say it on his own terms when he is ready. It is that simple.”
And then switched conversations to Titanic:
It is actually a little frustrating because it would have been so easy to shoot ‘Titanic’ in 3D, if we’d had cameras back then and if there had been theaters,” he told us. “It’s actually more work (to convert to 3D in post-production) and I don’t really enjoy the process, but I enjoy the result.”
“We have spent several years and millions of dollars trying to create a time machine so that I could go back and shoot it in 3D and it didn’t work out,” he joked. “So we just have to convert it.”
You see those teases? Avatar, Titanic, and Terminator? You see how he blinks and stock in Avatar goes up? That’s a skill. You can’t teach that.
Everybody that’s not dead is coming back for Avatar? There was a surprisingly high death toll in that movie last time I checked. Or did he mean something else?
And what’s this about discussions with Governator? Is he considering returning to the Terminator franchise? Dunno, but he does seem interested in working with Governator in the future. But what does he mean? Is it about that thing Tom Arnold mentioned? God I wish I could read minds…
