didnt cameron also direct aliens & t2?

I actually mentioned him on another article regarding directing The Avengers, but only because he seems to be very good at getting great camera movements/angles for action scenes. That kind of creative camera-work would look good in The Avengers movie, but other that, I don’t know much about him. I know I really liked Live Free or Die Hard, but that’s about it.

Here’s a little background info on him:
http://www.dragonlance-movie.com/movie/crew/boyd_kirkland.asp

He sure does have hands-on experience with all of these characters for many years.

1. The story must be accessible by the average movie attendee.
2. The story must not drag but can’t move at keystone cop speed. Commonly known today as M.Bay speed.
3. You must show the story not tell the story.
4. Art house technique has little value in this genre. Tread there at your peril.
5. Graphic sexuality is unnecessary. If you have to go there your doing it wrong.
6. Fan service must be balanced.
7. Logic must be consistent with the reality of the story.
8. Actors must look and feel the part.

There’s a few that I intended to add but forgot them as I was listing, that’s how bad I’m slipping. Feel free to add to the list.

X-Men cost 75 million..cheap by today’s standards!!
X2 125 million
X3 210 million

Fantastic Four 90 million
FF2 125 million

Look at how x-men’s costs for production skyrocketed…

FF were okay films and still cost a small fortune

An Avengers or Justice League film cannot be made cheap..

The average cost for most Marvel/DC character movies is north of 150 million.

They will be ponying up some major dough to get these types of films made.

Iron Man (Heavy CGI)
Hulk(Heavy CGI)
ANt-man/Wasp (CGI) @ bug size

There will be a heavy reliance on CGI regardless!! Lets just hope they give us a great story…

They are already gonna be paying Downey Jr, Hemsworth, Jackson, Norton (probably), and whoever is playing Cap. Plus VFX, that is a LOT of coin to make this movie.

Can they afford Cameron?

Also, his scripts are nt full of plot holes and massive lapses in logic ala hacks like Bay, JJ abrahms etc…imho..

And yeah he did write a Spiderman scriptment which is freely available on the web if you look for it. It was really grreat imho (though only a scriptment and not a properly fleshed out script, but it still gave a great idea of his approach), it had some damn cool action, and was actually more adult in tone than the comics (Peter and Mj have sex on top of the ESB) which I preferred. Raimi’s Spiderman even “borrowed” several elements (the organic web shooters are stolen right from Cameron’s scriptment) and the end battle between Spidey, Electro, and Sandman would have been quite spectacular i think.

I agree with most of what you say Ken J, i cant understand why some people cant seem to understand that cgi is a tool like any other effect, and like any other effect, there are bad examples of it and good examples of it. As you say so far Cameron has always used cgi very tastefully (I believe his track record proves this). I think its ridiculously close minded to just dismiss cgi out of hand as an effect, especially considering that there are many things that can not be done in any other way. And I also dont get his point in how he seems to be under the delusion that Thor, CA, and Iron Man dont have a lot of cgi??

here is an article you should surely be interested in about James Cameron that took the writer a year to do all about Cameron and his ways in producing and directing.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/26/091026fa_fact_goodyear

And James Cameron could surely pull it off without too much CGI involved. He knows major blockbusters more than anyone. He just wouldn’t sign on to do it. I do remember he had a spiderman script at one point so we know he was at least somewhat involved with Marvel at one point.