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| Zoe Saldana Talks Avatar, The Losers, and Star Trek 2 | November 1st, 2009 |
Zoe Saldana is certainly getting her fanboy credits in order. There’s James Cameron’s upcoming Avatar later this year, the comic book adaptation The Losers next year, and a Star Trek sequel likely arriving in 2012. Saldana spoke with E!Online and revealed she has watched some scenes from Cameron’s much-anticipated Avatar.
Just last Friday, I went to Fox and Jim was able to show me scenes along with [composer] James Horner’s music incorporated in it. O-M-G is all I’m going to say.
Saldana was a little more forthcoming about The Losers, which follows a CIA black ops team seeking revenge after being left for dead, that co-stars Watchmen’s Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
I play a toughass broad — sort of like a viper, snaky girl. Guys find it really sexy when they see a girl hanging from wires with guns. They even like it more when there’s a girl-on-guy fight and it looks like she’s kicking his ass. Jeffrey Dean Morgan was such a gentleman. He was like, “Zoe, you can kick my butt any day.”
Saldana is hoping to kick some butt in Star Trek 2 as well, which looks like it may happen sooner than later.
We’re working on it. They were calling to see where we were going to be and how my schedule is next year. Just that was worth me doing a cartwheel when I got the phone call, because I cannot wait to put on the suit and go back to the Enterprise, take my shirt off, and be with all those yummy guys.
From Reelz Channel
| Fox Released New James Cameron ‘Avatar’ 4 Minute Featurette Clip | November 1st, 2009 |
20th Century Fox released a new James Cameron “Avatar” 4 minute featurette clip (below). The movie stars : Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Peter Mensah, Laz Alonso, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, and Matt Gerald.
This featurette features commentary from producers,directors,and actors of the “Avatar” movie. They talk more indepth about the premise of the film,and where the idea of it originated from. James Cameron talks about how when he first wanted to do the film,it wasn’t possible to do what he wanted to do.
He had to wait for technology to catch up to the script he had written. So they had to put the “Avatar” project on the backburner. Then in 2005,they started thinking that they could get this film made.
Next, they talked more about the Jake Sully character. They described how he gets transferred into the Avatar alien body. They interviewed the artists for the film,and then talk more about how this film pushes the envelope. Finally,it finishes up with more scenes and footage from the film.
James Cameron’s “Avatar” movie hits theaters on December 18,2009.
From On The Flix
| Official Avatar Site Launched | November 1st, 2009 |
In addition to the amazing new trailer for James Cameron’s Avatar, 20th Century Fox has also launched the official website for the film which includes new photos, wallpapers and more. You’ll also get to hear more of James Horner’s score from the movie.
You can check out the site at www.avatarmovie.com.
| Avatar’s Blue Cat People Are Ready To Sing For You | October 8th, 2009 |
James Cameron’s Avatar score will be filled with singing in the Na’vi tongue. Zoe Saldana talked Na’vi native to us on camera, and we liked it… a lot. But James Horner’s three-hour soundtrack is not just blue people singing.
In an interview with Movie Score Magazine Mike Knobloch, the executive vice president of Fox Music, reveal that the almost three-hour long movie will have a score that is equally as long, yikes.
The music is being composed by James Horner, who also worked on Aliens with Cameron. But when he wrote the music for Aliens, Horner “had 3 1/2 weeks to finish about 80 minutes of music.” He’s had almost a year to finish Avatar. The score includes a vast array of musical instruments, both electrical and acoustic. Let’s keep our fingers crossed for a jungle-cat band, with guitars made from vines and sticks.
From io9
| Zoe Saldana Says Avatar Film Tech Gave the Actors “Freedom” | October 6th, 2009 |
While actress Zoe Saldana “doesn’t appear photographically” in Avatar, according to director James Cameron the sophisticated CGI technology developed for the movie allowed Saldana’s performance to shine through her digital character, giving it “heart and soul.” While many actors have complained publicly about the difficulties of working against a green screen on other heavily CGI pictures, Saldana told CanMag that the the technology behind Avatar actually helped her acting experience.
After you get used to it, it is the most amazing thing because you’re not working in a movie where you have to pause yourself and they have to light again and you have to start all over again. We would do a scene from the beginning to the end every time. As an actor, you can only be so lucky to do that.
We had this freedom. When you take away a set, when you take away the hair and the makeup, you just leave the actors working with a director and you have all day. You have all day to talk and Jim is that kind of filmmaker, director that he will stop. He will sit down with you and if it takes a three hour discussion in terms of how big a monster is this beast that we’re talking about, in order for me to adjust my levels of fear or aggressiveness, it was about going into the computers and getting all these pictures and talking extensively to us so by the time we got back on the Volume, which is what we called the set, we knew what was in our minds. It was being a child again. It was being a child again and not limiting your imagination.
Avatar also stars Sam Worthington, Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, and Giovanni Ribisi.
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