How Gollum of Lord of the Rings Influenced Avatar
It just thrilled me to bits to read that there’s a connection between my favorite Lord of the Rings trilogy director Peter Jackson and the soon to be released Avatar director James Cameron. The Daily Telegraph reports.
But it was not until [James Cameron] saw how Peter Jackson had created the Gollum character in Lord of the Rings that he felt it would be possible to make Avatar – although, he said: “We were going significantly beyond anything he had done because we had all sorts of different characters based on different actors.”
[James Cameron] went to New Zealand to meet [Peter} Jackson, toured his special-effects workshop and hired Jackson’s Weta company to work on Avatar.
Cameron explained his methods as he took me on a tour of the offices of his Lightstorm company in an unobtrusive, three-storey building on a busy street in the centre of Santa Monica. It is there, in offices lined with movie posters and rooms containing models of outlandish-looking creatures, that his staff of 60 artists, writers, production assistants and computer experts work on bringing his sometimes impossible?seeming ideas to the screen.
Thanks to the free newspaper Today for the heads up.
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