Avatar Movie Cast And Characters

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• Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, "a paralyzed former marine who undergoes an experiment to exist as an avatar, another version of himself... an alien – 10 feet (three meters) tall and blue." Sully is able to be part of the alien world in his avatar, a genetically engineered biological body that can be remotely operated by a human consciousness. Director James Cameron cast the Australian actor after searching the world for promising young actors, preferring relative unknowns to keep the budget down. Worthington auditioned twice early in development, and he has signed on for possible sequels.
• Zoë Saldaña as an alien Jake initially betrays, but they both fall in love. The character will be entirely computer generated. Saldaña has also signed on for sequels.
• Sigourney Weaver as Grace, a botanist who mentors Jake Sully. Weaver dyed her hair red for the part.^[11] Her character was named Shipley at one point. The character reminded Weaver of Cameron himself, being "very driven and very idealistic".
• Michelle Rodriguez as an ex-marine pilot. Cameron had desired to work with Rodriguez since he had seen her in Girlfight (2000).
• Giovanni Ribisi as Selfridge, a passive-aggressive character.
• Stephen Lang as a Marine Corps colonel. Lang had auditioned for a role in Cameron's Aliens (1986) that he did not get, but the director remembered Lang and cast him into Avatar.
• Joel David Moore as an anthropologist who studies plant and nature life like Weaver's character.
• Matt Gerald as the main villain.

Actors Wes Studi, C.C.H. Pounder, Laz Alonso, and Peter Mensah are also in the film. Actor Michael Biehn entered talks with Cameron in March 2007 for a possible role in the film, but his involvement is not confirmed.

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Watch TV on PC - 12,000 TV Channels and Movies In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture. Watch TV on PC - 12,000 TV Channels and Movies

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Watch TV on PC - 12,000 TV Channels and Movies SINGAPORE : Get ready for a slew of 3D movies from Hollywood next year.

More than 20 such films will be released, up from just one about five years ago. And that's because 3D is poised to improve cinema attendance and ticket sales.

3D action movie "Journey to the Center of the Earth" which hits cinemas across Singapore this Christmas season, has grossed more than US$212 million worldwide since its release in July, while yet-to-be-released science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" is already generating intense interest.

"Journey to the Center of the Earth" is the first live-action movie to be shot entirely in 3D digital format. Brendan Fraser, star and co-executive producer of the film, decided to go 3D because it is "nothing that people have seen before".

"I've come of age in a period of film making when I've learnt my trade with CGI and visual effects treatments, and a whole generation has also come of age at the same time having seen that type of imagery and it seems almost par for the course, the norm. So I ask myself where do you go from here... what would really grab an audience and immerse them in the experience of film, and the answer is simply 3D," said Fraser, who is in Singapore for the world's first international 3D Film Festival, 3DX.

Today's 3D is different from the 3D of the past. For starters, audiences wear polarised glasses which are "comfortable and kind of geeky-cool", instead of the traditional red and blue eyed paper glasses.

"You will feel like you are a member of the cast, if not a character, or a part of the action itself," Fraser said.

"It has the experience of taking the audience right out of their seat and immersing them into it (the film)."

No longer do you watch a movie, you "experience" it, said Jon Landau, producer of upcoming 3D blockbuster "Avatar".

"Digital technology allows us to present up on the screen an experience that people have never gotten before. What happens is the screen plane disappears and they are looking through a window into a world."

Contrary to popular belief, 3D is not just for sci-fi films but all movie genres, and Landau strongly believes 3D is here to stay.

He likens it to the transition of films from black and white to colour, "Once you've gone to colour, you go back to a specific creative reasoning to do black and white, other than that, everything is made in colour."

"And I think you’ll find it coming into your home... into your personal devices. We’ve seen 3D, nature created us that way, and I think we will continue to see it that way in entertainment," he added.

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Watch TV on PC - 12,000 TV Channels and Movies Avatar is an upcoming 3-D science fiction film directed by James Cameron, due to be released on December 18, 2009.

In director James Cameron's original script treatment of Avatar, a man tries to make his way as a miner by combining with an alien during an interplanetary war in which aliens can manifest themselves by possessing human bodies – avatars.

When Avatar was titled "Project 880", a casting call was put out in June 2006 with a plot description provided, saying, "In the future, Jake, a paraplegic war veteran is brought to another planet, Pandora, which is inhabited by the Na'vi, a humanoid race with their own language and culture. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture."

In December 2006, Cameron described Avatar as "a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years hence [...] an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience [that] aspires to a mythic level of storytelling." The January 2007 press release described the film: "Avatar is also an emotional journey of redemption and revolution. It is the story of a wounded ex-marine, thrust unwillingly into an effort to settle and exploit an exotic planet rich in bio-diversity, who eventually crosses over to lead the indigenous race in a battle for survival," and "We're creating an entire world, a complete ecosystem of phantasmagorical plants and creatures, and a native people with a rich culture and language.

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