Visionary director James Cameron attended a recent screening of his 1989 sci-fi adventure film The Abyss at the Los Angeles genre festival Beyond Fest.The Academy Award-winning filmmaker shared insights about the making and writing process behind The Abyss, which screened at the event with a rare 2-hour and 51-minute Special Edition. Cameron had announced this version of the film last year and assured event attendees that both physical and streaming versions are on the horizon.During the Q&A session, Cameron discussed the diverse influences that shaped the movie’s narrative, including the possible inspirations from that era’s sci-fi classics, such as Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “I think anybody that was a movie fan at that time — we’re talking 34 years ago — could see the DNA from other movies, from Close Encounters to the Cold War movies, so obviously I was being pulled in different directions. But the one that stands above the others is The Day the Earth Stood Still.”RELATED: James Cameron Names Which of His Movies Started Hollywood’s CGI Trend (And It’s Not Avatar)
Visionary director James Cameron attended a recent screening of his 1989 sci-fi adventure film The Abyss at the Los Angeles genre festival Beyond Fest.
The Academy Award-winning filmmaker shared insights about the making and writing process behind The Abyss, which screened at the event with a rare 2-hour and 51-minute Special Edition. Cameron had announced this version of the film last year and assured event attendees that both physical and streaming versions are on the horizon.
During the Q&A session, Cameron discussed the diverse influences that shaped the movie’s narrative, including the possible inspirations from that era’s sci-fi classics, such as Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. “I think anybody that was a movie fan at that time — we’re talking 34 years ago — could see the DNA from other movies, from Close Encounters to the Cold War movies, so obviously I was being pulled in different directions. But the one that stands above the others is The Day the Earth Stood Still.”
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