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The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that James Cameron was writing Avatar: The Novel, because if there is one thing that Avatar is best known and most loved for, it is the writing! Said James Cameron: “There are things you can do in books that you can’t do with films.” True! From the article:
[Cameron] says the book version of “Avatar” will follow the film version “quite closely” in terms of the plot. But the novel will also include “interior monologues” and provide details about the characters and Pandora.
Cameron said he first considered writing the book when he was filming the movie. “I told myself, if it made money, I’d write a book,” the director said.
That is definitely the right way to approach a book idea, and one that treats literature with respect and as a significant art-form with a long, and important history. And the book looks like it’s going to be equally GREAT and SMART. How do we know? Because we have an exclusive FIRST LOOK at a page from it:
Oh man, I cannot wait to find out what happens next! What a good book. I hope there are Pulitzer Prizes in SPACE.
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I cannot lots of love this post enough.
Agreed. This is full-flex next level stuff, Gabe.
I’ll wait for the m-oh you son of a gun!
I’d read it. But only in IMAX.
Needs more 3-D.
This will be a pop-up book, right? …James Cameron has just been waiting 15 years for pop-up technology to “catch up”.
I’ve found a Na’vi I love the most,
I’ve found a Na’vi, his naaaame is P’okoko
My favorite N’avi is K’okomo. Right after A’ruba & J’amaica.
Lots of Love!
I hope they make a movie based on the book version!
This is what Sarah Palin, another famous American author, was recently mentioning we need.
Meh… I’ll wait for the novelization of Terminator 2.
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“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a neural net processor; a learning computer…”
(c) Jim Austen, 2010
What we Talk About When we Talk About Future Dances with Space Wolves.
Will you be my internet boyfriend?
Like the unobtanium buried out of reach deep within the layers of Pandora, so the pacing, characterization, plot and general quality of this book will be buried out of reach deep within the layers of made-up words and ponytail-sex.
Oh! Thanks for the new name for my band: Ponytail Sex.
O, Jamesy, let me up out of this long and boring nightmare.
I love how chapter three is less than a page long. Which is funny, because the last thing I would expect from James Cameron, a guy who makes three hour movies, is a concise and to the point novel.
fake
Hey Shellbombe- Wait, who are you?
It’s shellbomber’s immobile doppleganger, Smell Bomber, I mean sweetsweeteyejuices
Whoa. It kinda looks like me, except I move.
to be fair i’ve had my avatar since july. so you look like me, except FIRST. i’m also borderline animated GIF retarded.
“You don’t know about me without you have seen a movie by the name of Avatar; but that ain’t no matter. That movie was made by Mr. James Cameron, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.” — Jake Sully’s Spacebasketball Diaries
Personally I could not love anything, not kittens or Christmas, more than I love this: “Their natural curiosity made them curious now.”
This is so fake, everyone knows Pandora basketball is called Unobtain-o-ball.
No, that’s what they call Keepaway.
This is fake. The English translations are not in the right font.
“I’m not leaving without you,” hissed Neytiri. “Go on without me,? spat Jake. “What part of ‘I see you’ don’t you understand — don’t you die on me!” squalled Neytiri. “I always wanted to say that,” quipped Dr. Augustine. “Pandora, we have a problem,” sputtered Neytiri as the thanator lunged …
Spaceketball reminds me of Marshall’s family’s sport, Baskiceball (or as Lily suggested, Iceketball).
I want to be able to make coherent, well-informed fun of this stupid movie and its megalomaniacal creator. But, still, not enough that I’m actually going to sit through it.
Oh my science. So good, this post.
Well, in the original manuscript, chapter 3 spanned 1 3/4 pages, but Leo Dicaprio and 1979 Sigourney Weaver were like, “easy on the adverbs, Jimmy Cam*.”
*The Jimmy Cam is actually what Cameron named his new magic cameras that were able to breath in the Pandoran atmosphere.
I thought that was the nickname given to him by Gwyneth Paltrow.
I’m gonna download that blog for sure!
I can only pray that is a just world this post will somehow make it to James Cameron.
Avatar’s complex themes of “Nature+internetstuff” and “Armybad” are going to really translate well into prose.
For real though, I’m pretty sure this is one of those moments where you can point out precisely where in a celebrity’s career they became so famous they lost their fucking mind.
“Nature+internetstuff”
It’s like a battle between motors and horses, like technology versus horse.
Foreword to be my Mark Wahlberg.
I’m the king of the words!
I haven’t seen it either and I am being labeled as cynical and then “what’s wrong with you?”. The pressure is mounting, “Just go see it!”.
It would be nice to know what all the hubbub is about though…
This doesn’t even say if the Avatars were any good at Space Basket ball? Shitty.
Wait, the pick-up game of space basketball wasn’t in the movie–is it canon?
Does anybody else think that a na’vi playing basketball would look almost exactly like the giant, gawky blue alien from Space Jam that stole sean bradley’s ability? Just sayin.
Time to line up at amazon.com/books, you guys.
If we’re good this year it will be in Choose Your Own Adventure format, and every time you can choose, you’ll have the option of euthanasia!!!!
“Bing bong, poparoo, womp womp, I am at peace with nature” is my new catchphrase.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureli’ano Bu’endÃa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover unobtainium.
Maybe we can petition Gabriel Garcia Marquez to ghostwrite it? At least that way it’ll be good. And in Spanish.
First you create amazing technology. Then you make a movie with it. Then you make a ton of money off that movie. Only then, with all that free time and money, can you sit down and write the script.
I’ve already cued it on my iPad.
I work for a romance novel publisher, and sadly, this does not seem that far off from some of our submissions.
Interior monologues, eh? How ’bout some exterior monologues too, just to switch it up a little, ala Hamlet? On second thought, fuck Hamlet, that shit didn’t have super cool ‘splosions so this is gonna be all kinds of AWESOME!
When I read Rocky 4 as a kid, the movie was a real let down for me. It somehow lacked the ethnocentrism of the book. I haven’t seen Avatar yet – but will reading the book first have a similar effect?
“Avatar? What is Avatar? Is this what they are watching now in the city of men? Ha! Ridiculous.”
- Forest Brian Ferry
Honk if u get the reference