Avatar: James Cameron unveils trailer for 3-D movie
James Cameron at this year's Comic-Con where he offered a sneak peek of the film. Photo: Getty Images
Thursday August 20 2009
The trailer for Avatar, James Cameron's highly anticipated 3-D movie, will be unveiled online on Thursday on the Apple website.
Apple's trailers site is counting down to the 'teaser trailer debut' of the latest offering from the director of Titanic and The Abyss, scheduled for 3pm.
Avatar is a science fiction film scheduled for a worldwide release on December 18, 2009 and will be Cameron's first major offering since 2003's Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines.
The film - starring Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver and Zoe Saldaña - takes place on Pandorum, a strange and beautiful planet with bizarre creatures and plant life.
Sam Worthington plays a paraplegic who is linked through a medical process to an “avatar,” a 10-foot-tall, blue-skinned creature that looks like Pandorum’s native Na’vi.
Cameron conceived Avatar 14 years ago and filmed it in stereoscopic 3-D using cameras developed by him.
The trailer for Ubisoft’s videogame James Cameron’s Avatar: The Game and action figures based on the film are also scheduled for release on Friday.
The studio behind the movie, 20th Century Fox, had been offering free tickets to the trailer screening, which proved so popular that it crashed the official website for several hours on Monday.
Last month, Cameron offered a sneak peek of the film to fans at Comic-Con 2009, showing 25 minutes of footage in 3-D. Producer Jon Landau, Zoe Saldana, Stephen Lang, and Sigourney Weaver also appeared at a panel.
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- Subhajit Banerjee
