James Cameron has lost it

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

Indeed. Has he ever made a "flop"?

Just one: The Abyss.

 

[Data Holmes]

Indeed. Has he ever made a "flop"?

Just one: The Abyss.

Huh, I love that movie. Never realized it was a flop.

 

[Kegg]

He didn't go into any details on his TV show idea.

An Avatar TV show would have the same problem that the on-hold Star Wars TV show has had: A brand strongly associated with spectacle in a format that doesn't compete with film special effects. Take Terra Nova, for example, a TV series that definitely wanted to be a bit like TV's Avatar (down to the Stephen Lang) and whose wow moments visually speaking were nothing comapred to Cameron's film... and Terra Nova never tried to do anything like the humanoid yet CGI Na'vi.

So as natural as a couple of film sequels are, and as self-explanatory as a novel tie-in is, I can't quite wrap my head around how a TV show would work.

 

[doubleohfive]

James Cameron has lost it

On the contrary; I'm pretty sure Cameron's got "it."

 

[Trekker4747]

Indeed. Has he ever made a "flop"?

Just one: The Abyss.

Huh, I love that movie. Never realized it was a flop.

It may be a bit of a financial "flop" it only made $90m to its $70m production budget so all being good it made back it's costs for both production and advertising.... Maybe. But I think the movie has had pretty decent fan reaction and is something of a "cult classic."

 

[Out Of My Vulcan Mind]

It may be a bit of a financial "flop" it only made $90m to its $70m production budget so all being good it made back it's costs for both production and advertising.... Maybe.

It definitely didn't make back its production and marketing costs from theatrical box office given the split between the studio and theaters, and it was released at a time when ancillary markets generated much less revenue than they do today.

But I think the movie has had pretty decent fan reaction and is something of a "cult classic."

That's true.

 

[Alidar Jarok]

ten creaky movies based on a cancelled space opera TV show...

11 movies, no?

 

[Nerys Myk]

ten creaky movies based on a cancelled space opera TV show...

11 movies, no?

He's not counting TMP, because what ever the hell it was, it wasn't Star Trek.

 

[Captaindemotion]

ten creaky movies based on a cancelled space opera TV show...

11 movies, no?

He's not counting TMP, because what ever the hell it was, it wasn't Star Trek.

I'm guessing that as the Artist Formerly Known as Dennis is a big fan of JJ Abrams' movie, he doesn't classify it as a 'creaky movie.'

 

[TremblingBluStar]

Yeah, Cameron doesn't have a clue. Hollywood has never milked a cash cow dry before, has it?

To be fair, there was never a Titanic sequel, to my eternal amazement.

Just a ton of ripoffs.

Which is ironic given how bland and unoriginal Titanic was.

 

[MacLeod]

Well part of the Reason for the success of Titanic is the interest the ship actually generates. If it was just a love story on a ship that sinks, without the Titanic name attached to it would it have been as succesful?

I don't think it would have been.

 

[Harvey]

So as natural as a couple of film sequels are, and as self-explanatory as a novel tie-in is, I can't quite wrap my head around how a TV show would work.

An animated series, maybe? But even that would be expensive, I would think.

 

[Data Holmes]

So as natural as a couple of film sequels are, and as self-explanatory as a novel tie-in is, I can't quite wrap my head around how a TV show would work.

An animated series, maybe? But even that would be expensive, I would think.

He has done TV before, Dark Angel.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I guess he figures if Michael Bay can stick around for four special effects-laden franchise films that left the script at the door, so can he.

Nah. The script for Avatar is fine.

 

[Harvey]

So as natural as a couple of film sequels are, and as self-explanatory as a novel tie-in is, I can't quite wrap my head around how a TV show would work.

An animated series, maybe? But even that would be expensive, I would think.

He has done TV before, Dark Angel.

Not only was that show a disaster that petered out after two seasons, but it also didn't possess the spectacle that a television series in the universe of Avatar would need to have.

 

[Data Holmes]

An animated series, maybe? But even that would be expensive, I would think.

He has done TV before, Dark Angel.

Not only was that show a disaster that petered out after two seasons, but it also didn't possess the spectacle that a television series in the universe of Avatar would need to have.

I liked that show.