This blockbuster has been rumoured for a while, and anything J. Cameron does is noteworthy because this dude only ever makes a movie every 10 years. And when he doies it's a no-expsnses-spared blocbuster (Titanic, Termiantor 2)
The script for the movie was leaked onto the Internet a month, or so, ago, but was taken down, but some details of the story have been leaked out. He's been planning on doing this movie for a long, long time apparently, and now the time is right for a 2009 release.
(SPOILER) Here’s a short summary (SPOILER)
Earth has reached Alpha Centauri, and found life. The most “advanced” lifeforms are like “primitive” rainforest indians. It’s still extremely expensive to go to Alpha Centauri, but the rewards are equally insane: A super conductor metal, unobainium, exists in abundance, and its price is high enough to warrant sending missions to the remote star system.
Equally, humans have found anti bodies for a lot of human diseases on the planet, and brought them home to sell as expensive medicine. Humanity, thus, has a “hard” reason to go to Alpha Centauri (Unobtainium) and a “soft” reason (discover more about the planet and see if more antibodies, or equally rewarding products, could be derived from the planet system.
Earth itself is wallowing in filth, and shutting down. Josh, our hero, scrapes by and after his identical twin dies, life just cannot get any worse. But that is when he is informed that his twin was actually of the few humans who succesfully managed to “control” a genetic fuse between a human and the indiginous “primitive” race. His identical twin was a “handler” and because Josh shared the same genetic footprint, he is needed to replace his deceased twin and “handle” (mind-control) this creature.
Of course he agrees, and off to Alpha Centauri he goes. Turns out life in this “other body” is much better than his real life, and when he finds out that humans aren’t intending the new planet any good, he becomes a fighter for the other side and along the way makes some startling discoveries (and finds, yes yes, love).
For one, the whole planet is one organism, Gaia-style. And humanity is the disease. Queue much shooting, some alien love, some OMG-OMG-OMG-this-place-is-so-much-better-than-home and OMG-OMG-OMG-aren’t-we-really-evil and “look how much our progress has brought”, except delivered in a form that seemed to work and, in the hands of someone like Cameron, could work 2000%.
The script for the movie was leaked onto the Internet a month, or so, ago, but was taken down, but some details of the story have been leaked out. He's been planning on doing this movie for a long, long time apparently, and now the time is right for a 2009 release.
(SPOILER) Here’s a short summary (SPOILER)
Earth has reached Alpha Centauri, and found life. The most “advanced” lifeforms are like “primitive” rainforest indians. It’s still extremely expensive to go to Alpha Centauri, but the rewards are equally insane: A super conductor metal, unobainium, exists in abundance, and its price is high enough to warrant sending missions to the remote star system.
Equally, humans have found anti bodies for a lot of human diseases on the planet, and brought them home to sell as expensive medicine. Humanity, thus, has a “hard” reason to go to Alpha Centauri (Unobtainium) and a “soft” reason (discover more about the planet and see if more antibodies, or equally rewarding products, could be derived from the planet system.
Earth itself is wallowing in filth, and shutting down. Josh, our hero, scrapes by and after his identical twin dies, life just cannot get any worse. But that is when he is informed that his twin was actually of the few humans who succesfully managed to “control” a genetic fuse between a human and the indiginous “primitive” race. His identical twin was a “handler” and because Josh shared the same genetic footprint, he is needed to replace his deceased twin and “handle” (mind-control) this creature.
Of course he agrees, and off to Alpha Centauri he goes. Turns out life in this “other body” is much better than his real life, and when he finds out that humans aren’t intending the new planet any good, he becomes a fighter for the other side and along the way makes some startling discoveries (and finds, yes yes, love).
For one, the whole planet is one organism, Gaia-style. And humanity is the disease. Queue much shooting, some alien love, some OMG-OMG-OMG-this-place-is-so-much-better-than-home and OMG-OMG-OMG-aren’t-we-really-evil and “look how much our progress has brought”, except delivered in a form that seemed to work and, in the hands of someone like Cameron, could work 2000%.
