{"id":10056,"date":"2010-08-26T11:59:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10056"},"modified":"2010-08-26T11:59:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T18:59:38","slug":"cameron-competing-with-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/08\/cameron-competing-with-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron: Competing With Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director<strong> James Cameron<\/strong> would like to see the <em>Avatar<\/em> world of Pandora be ranked up with the <em>Star Trek<\/em> Federation, <em>Star Wars<\/em> Empire and Tolkien worlds.<\/p>\n<p>If Cameron had his way, Avatar, the highest-grossing film in history, would remain in the hearts and minds of fans for decades, with the inevitable toys, games and books to appear in due course.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Avatar082610.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10057\" title=\"Avatar082610\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Avatar082610.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"166\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>A companion novel to <em>Avatar<\/em> is already in the works, which will arrive in bookstores in time for the holidays. &#8220;It gets into the nuts and bolts of the Na&#8217;vi culture, their lore and mythology, and has more about Dr. Grace [<strong>Sigourney Weaver<\/strong>] and her time on Pandora, but it doesn&#8217;t go beyond the end of the film other than to tease a little bit about what&#8217;s going to happen next,&#8221; said Cameron. &#8220;It will also be the bible for any future publication, a look-up guide for future writers who can come in and work within the world&#8230;. Think about all the <em>Star Trek<\/em> novels and how they contradicted each other for a few years and it made it tricky to be a Trekkie for a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cameron wants the world and story of <em>Avatar <\/em>to end up in the same place in the hearts of fans as other worlds of science fiction and fantasy. &#8220;You&#8217;ve got to compete head on with these other epic works of fantasy and fiction, the Tolkiens and the<em> Star War<\/em>s and the<em> Star Trek<\/em>s,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People want a persistent alternate reality to invest themselves in and they want the detail that makes it rich and worth their time. They want to live somewhere else. Like Pandora.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer-director James Cameron would like to see the Avatar world of Pandora be ranked up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2416],"tags":[3011,3354],"class_list":["post-10056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fandom","tag-avatar","tag-cameron"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/fandom\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Fandom<\/a>","tag_info":"Fandom","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10058,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions\/10058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}