Oh, James Cameron. Every time you open your mouth we’re mildly astonished (and sort of pleased), but we suppose we shouldn’t be. This time it’s about “The Hobbit.” Wait, what does this director have anything to do with “The Lord Of The Rings” prequel? Well, since Cameron has an opinion on everything and since he’s producing Guillermo del Toro’s next project, “At The Mountains Of Madness,” he just has to weigh in.
“I was telling [Guillermo] for a long time to get out of that thing because there is only room for one captain on the ship,” Cameron told Australia’s Herald Sun. “Instinctively I knew that Peter [Jackson] was going to take over and do the movie. Guillermo, to his credit, didn’t listen to me and wanted to do continue and had some great designs — and I have seen all the designs. Of course he would have done a spectacular job, but don’t we want to see Peter do it? He should do it and Guillermo should do his thing. That’s what I told both of them — you should just stay in your corners.”
Gee, thanks Dad. And Cameron’s thoughts on “Avatar” losing the Best Picture Oscar to “The Hurt Locker” is really the gift that keeps on giving.
“America had been at war for seven years and that war was ending and, just like with ‘Platoon,’ they needed closure and a film that symbolically closed the chapter and I think the Hurt Locker did that,” he says. “It was not controversial, it was not political, it celebrated the American fighting man and it gave people a sense that ‘OK, we are paying attention to the war by celebrating this film. It’s all very emotional and doesn’t make much sense. It certainly didn’t make a damn bit of sense to the rest of the world who were looking on in gape-faced astonishment.”
And while there’s eventually going to be an “Avatar” porn parody (if there isn’t one already with 3D splooge, ew!), Cameron promises we’ll probably see some blue sea-monkey junk down the road. “If you want to see Na’vi nudity, you will have to wait until one of the later films.” James Cameron, you’re our hero.