So berichtet AICN: [..] PROJECT 880 is AVATAR, or as he put it, "a retooled version of AVATAR" We talked about the scriptment that got out and he said while he was annoyed that it got out, he realized it was really no different than adapting a novel, and that certainly adapting that scriptment, which was incredibly dense as it was, had been a great challenge in and of itself. Now he still doesn't know if it is going to be BATTLE ANGEL ALITA or AVATAR that comes next. You see deep within the N.S.A. like security of LIGHTSTORM, Jim has been constructing a Virtual Production Studio completely unlike anything anyone has ever seen before. Within that space are two separate teams concurrently prepping and getting ready to shoot back to back essentially over a 3 year span, BATTLE ANGEL ALITA and AVATAR. Because of the films' mutual lack of a BIG STAR in the lead role, his start up on filming isn't having to be locked down. So both projects can be prepped right up to the last minute before he calls it as to which is getting made. Why the back and forth? It isn't because he's trying to drive us crazy, it's because he is so in love with both projects that he can't just emotionally choose one over the other. What has to be decided is which project is the greater commercial introduction to the technology that he's going to be unleashing upon us. You see. This isn't just a "next film" to Jim, it's about evolving cinema as we've come to know it. When you're speaking to him, you'd find yourself not speaking to a crackpot, but to the most lucid evangelical techno-fetishist in the world, who just happens to be a filmmaking god. How can I say that? [..]
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