Let’s go through some AVATAR goodness real quick, after the jump, you can watch the new featurette, via International yahoo, discussing the themes of the upcoming James Cameron 3D epic, heads up, the clip’s got lots of SPOILERS. And the video after that is a clip showing Jake (Sam Worthington) running from a Thenatar in his Avatar body, via traileraddict. And for those of us who care, the film’s end title song, “I See You” is performed by multiple Grammy Award-nominated singer Leona Lewis, and produced by James Horner and Simon Franglen, the team behind Titanic’s blockbuster theme song, “My Heart Will Go On.” A companion video — directed by Jake Nava — is currently in production. The soundtrack album, which features music composed and conducted by Academy Award-winner James Horner (Titanic), will be released digitally and physically December 15th (internationally available December 14th) with pre-orders beginning at AtlanticRecords.com on November 16th. Check out both clips after this jump…
The story’s hero is Jake Sully, a former Marine confined to a wheelchair. Bitter and disillusioned, he’s still a warrior at heart. All Jake ever wanted was something worth fighting for, and he finds it in the place he least expected: on a distant world. Jake has been recruited to join an expedition to the moon Pandora, which corporate interests are strip-mining for a mineral worth $20 million per kilogram on Earth. To facilitate their work, the humans use a link system that projects a person’s consciousness into a hybrid of humans and Pandora’s indigenous humanoids, the Na’vi. This human-Na’vi hybrid – a fully living, breathing body that resembles the Na’vi but possesses the individual human’s thoughts, feelings and personality – is known as an “avatar.”
In his new avatar form, Jake can once again walk. His mission is to interact with and infiltrate the Na’vi with the hope of enlisting their help – or at least their acquiescence – in mining the ore. A beautiful Na’vi female, Neytiri, saves Jake’s life, albeit reluctantly, because even in his avatar body, Jake represents to her the human encroachment on the Na’vi’s unspoiled world.
As Jake’s relationship with Neytiri deepens, along with his respect for the Na’vi, he faces the ultimate test as he leads an epic conflict that will decide nothing less than the fate of an entire world.
AVATAR opens December 18th, 2009
