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1. James Cameron, known for being tough on set, allegedly kept a nail-gun on set that he would use to nail cell phones, that had the misfortune of ringing, to a wall above the exit sign.

2. The Na’vi language was created entirely from scratch by linguist Dr. Paul R. Frommer. James Cameron hired him to construct a language that the actors could pronounce easily, but did not resemble any single human language. Frommer created about 1000 words.

3. James Cameron originally planned to have the film completed for release in 1999. At the time, the special effects he wanted increased the budget to $400 million. No studio would fund the film, and it was shelved for eight years.

4. James Cameron was convinced that CGI effects had progressed enough to make this film when he saw Gollum in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

5. To appease 20th Century Fox’s fears, and remembering the harrowing experience of Titanic (1997) and its production overruns and costly delays, James Cameron promised to forgo his director’s fee if Avatar (2009) flopped.

Jake’s atrophied legs were prosthetics cast from the legs of a real paraplegic. Sam Worthington’s real legs were tucked into the wheelchair and digitally removed in post-production.

First movie to ever cross the US$ 2,000,000,000 mark worldwide (and later the US$ 2.5 billion mark), making it the highest grossing film in history. One of the most expensive movies ever made (as of December 2009), with an estimated budget of US $280,000,000.

. Avatars have eyebrows and five digits per hand or foot while the Na’vi only have four and no eyebrows. The Avatars are also broader in the chest and arms, appearing more ‘muscular’.

. The movie is 40% live action and 60% photo-realistic CGI. A lot of motion capture technology was used for the CGI scenes.

To help the actors prepare for their roles, director James Cameron took the cast and crew to Hawaii, where they spent their days trekking through the forests and jungles and living like tribes (building campfires, eating fish, etc), in order to get a better sense of what it would be like to live and move around in the jungle on Pandora, since there would not be any actual jungle sets to aid and guide the actors and crew.

Colonel Quaritch mentions that being on Pandora made him feel “like a shave-tail Looie.” “Shave tail” was a term originally used in the 19th century among U.S. cavalry regiments.

“Unobtainium” is a humorous term used mainly in the aerospace industry. It describes a material that is perfect for an application, but does not exist, is extremely expensive, or violates the laws of physics.

The actors playing the Na’vi had cameras attached to their head so that they filmed close-ups of their faces. Dots painted on their faces allowed motion-capture software to record their facial expressions, providing a ‘framework’ from which the CG artists worked.

14. Despite understanding the Na’vi are not placental mammals, James Cameron insisted from the start that Neytiri should have breasts so as to look hot from a human’s point of view.

One of the alleged sources of the Na’vi’s blue skin colour comes from Cameron’s mother, who had a dream about a tall blue woman.

Before Sam Worthington was cast, Jake Gyllenhaal and Matt Damon were considered for the part. Jake Gyllenhaal was too busy being the whitest Persian ever in The Prince of Persia.

15. The spiral-shaped, retracting creatures Jake encounters early in the film are giant versions of Christmas Tree Worms, a marine invertebrate commonly kept in reef aquariums.

Sam Worthington revealed that it was easier for him to master the ways of the Na’vi language than to learn an American accent.

16. The concept of a network of trees in which minds of the deceased continue to exist appears in several novels of the “Ender” series by Orson Scott Card, most prominently in “Speaker for the Dead”. Just like in the movie, the trees in the novel are sacred to the native (remotely humanoid) inhabitants, who tolerate the presence of a small human colony on their world until cultural misunderstandings lead to conflict.

The timing for casting Sam Worthington in the lead could not be any better; the actor was living in his car at the time.

Avatar is just the first installment out of the planned five movies to be set in that universe.

17. The first time Sigourney Weaver has appeared in a James Cameron film since Aliens (1986). Cameron said that he didn’t want to cast her at first, exactly because “she was [his] safest choice to play the botanist.”

Cameron originally wanted to have the film completed for release in 1999, but the special effects the director wanted would have run the bill up by an extra $400 million and would still not complete his vision. So, he shelved it until later.

In the final battle sequence, Jake jumps onto Col. Quaritch’s gunship. The colonel sees Jake and pushes the control stick to swerve the ship. Jake loses balance and slides down the ship, where he grabs and hangs onto a missile. This is a reference to True Lies (1994), also directed by James Cameron.