James Cameron on real-life aliens
Tuesday December 22 2009
James Cameron may offer the most exotic planet full of aliens ever put on film in his sci-fi epic Avatar - but he thinks the first extra-terrestrials to arrive on Earth will be much more exciting.
The director said humans' first encounter with aliens will "be much beyond what we can imagine".
But he said there may already be other creatures on Earth, adding: "There are creatures right on Earth that are absolutely amazing, and all the aliens are already here, if you look at a small-enough scale or you look under the ocean."
Cameron's film Avatar triumphed at the box office this weekend with 232 million dollars worldwide.
It tells the story of a human, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), who takes on the form of the Na'vi, 10-foot-tall blue creatures that are the dominant species on the distant moon Pandora.
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