Avatar
Is Avatar your favourite film? Here you can find out amazing facts about the film.
1. Avatar was released in 2009.
2. In 1994, James Cameron wrote an 80 page treatment for Avatar. The film was shelved in 1999 as the technology available at the time didn't match James Cameron's vision.
3. The film is about 40% live action and 60% photo-realistic CGI.
4. The animal noises in the film are mainly edited and recycled sounds from Jurassic Park (1993).
5. A complete language was created specifically for the Na'vi people.
6. Some of the frames in the film took up to 47 hours to render.
7. Avatar became the highest-grossing film ever (it took just 47 days), overtaking Titanic.
8. The floating Hallelujah Mountains are based on China's Zhangjiajie National Forest Park.
9. The majority of the Pandora animals have six limbs, this implied the four-limbed Na'vi evolved differently.
10. James Cameron made a vocal cameo in the film, he can be heard on the radio, during the Dragon Gunship attack on Hometree.
11. The film cost $237 million to make and it generated almost $2.9 billion in box office revenue.
12. The live-action filming only actually took two months to complete, however there was years of post-production.
13. The storyline of Avatar is set in the year 2154. This is after the earth has suffered major ecological collapse and resource exhaustion.
14. The Na'vi live on Pandora, which is a moon and is orbiting a giant gas planet. This is 4.4 light-years from earth.
15. At night, almost every animal and plant glows in the dark, this lights up the entire landscape.
There you have fifteen incredible facts about Avatar. Which one are you most surprised by, let me know in the comments or on social media.
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