The upshot for Jake: he'll be able to walk again. But he's been killed, so the corporation has asked Jake to come to Pandora to pilot the (very expensive) body, as he's got matching DNA. Jake Sully's brother had been the original donor and controller for one such avatar. The result is essentially a cloned Na'vi that can house the consciousness of an individual with human DNA that matches the original clone material. A sort of clone program has developed in which DNA from humans and Na'vi are combined. And the natives, ten-foot tall blue humanoids called Na'vi, aren't exactly pleased about the men and machinery that are scarring the surface and digging to find the unobtanium.īecause the planet is so harsh, traditional armor and envirosuit solutions have been insufficient to protect miners. Plants and creatures alike are predatory and very dangerous. Befitting the mineral's status as a MacGuffin, Landau jokingly called it 'unobtanium'. What's on Pandora that is so important? A mineral, found nowhere else, that is a game-changer with respect to energy production. So when the opportunity comes to travel to the planet Pandora and work with a mining operation there, Jake accepts.
Adding injury to insult, he's lost the use of his legs. Jake Sully ( Sam Worthington) is a soldier who hasn't found anything worth fighting for.
Read on after the jump, but beware: there are many potential spoilers within. That was a surprise, especially since Cameron had just made two public appearances (at the UbiSoft press conference and at a screening of Aliens and The Abyss) and revealed no specifics about Avatar.
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But Landau actually explained (more or less) the whole movie to us. As Peter mentioned recently, producer Jon Landau was on hand to discuss how the film went from a story written fourteen years ago by Cameron to the cutting edge movie being edited now. When I sat down in UbiSoft's tiny Avatar theater on the E3 show floor, I was treated to far more information about the movie than I expected to get. The details about James Cameron's Avatar have been closely guarded, to say the least.