Cameron Will Write Avatar Novel

From the Carpetbagger blog at the NY Times:

For fans of James Cameron who have always believed that the best thing about his work is the writing, you’ll be delighted to know that he’s got a book in the works — and not just any book, but a novel that will serve as a prequel to his money-minting 3-D science-fiction film “Avatar.” In an interview with MTV.com, Jon Landau, who produced “Avatar” with Mr. Cameron, said that the novel (whose printed words will presumably exist in boring old 2-D) will “give a foundation” for the story told in the film, providing back stories for characters like Jake Sully (played by Sam Worthington), Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) and Colonel Quaritch (Stephen Lang). “I don’t think Jim has ever written a novel before, but his first step of writing a script is often in a novella format,” Mr. Landau told MTV.com. “So this is just expanding that, and I think that he’ll be very adept at it.” If the novel, planned for the end of the year, is a hit, Mr. Landau said that other books could be published, filling in more details and leading up to a possible “Avatar” sequel. The film is nominated for nine Academy Awards, none of which is best original screenplay.

Meanwhile, someone has set up a Facebook page with 1,635,510 fans asks you to become a fan of If Mr. Bean had an Avatar it would look like this:

And in other funny Avatar news, someone on the gossip site Oh No They Didn’t made the following animated .gif, which is kind of funny, you have to admit. It reminds me of our fights in the comments section.