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ORLANDO — For movie director James Cameron, Wednesday was “a spectacular, surreal” day as he stood in Walt Disney World’s Animal Kingdom and surveyed Pandora, an area of the park based on his movie “Avatar.”
In a ceremony with drummers, standard bearers and singers dressed in the fashion of the movie’s alien characters, Cameron and Disney chairman and CEO Bob Iger dedicated Pandora prior to its opening to the general public on Saturday.
In praising Cameron, Iger said the director “could easily be a Disney Imagineer — I wish Jim Cameron was a Disney Imagineer.”
Avatar is the highest-grossing film of all time. Cameron said he was inspired in part by a literal dream of a bioluminescent forest that he had when he was 19 years old. “I woke up very excited, and I sketched and I painted. I remembered those images years later when I started writing the script of Avatar.”
Cameron said he made the movie and now, years later, “literally, a dream has come true all around me. [Disney executive designer and vice president, creative] Joe Rohde and his team of Imagineers have exceeded my wildest dreams in bringing Pandora to life. It’s an amazing experience for anyone who has ever dreamed about visiting Pandora.”
Sоurсе: travelweekly.com
