Recently, I09 ambushed and held hostage Reuben Langdon, one of the motion capture actors that played all the blue running alien guys in “Avatar”, soon to grace your 3D Imax of choice. Making “Avatar” was a high tech affair, but while the end result will scream sophisticated nerd, the actual process involved in the filming was more Monty Python. As you will see in these excerpts from the interview held at the Wraith Of Con party at Comic-Con.

Hey, kids, excited to see that trailer for James Cameron’s sure-to-be-epic “Avatar” that everyone is talking about post-Comic Con? Unfortunately you probably won’t end up seeing that one, as the trailer Apple.com is advertising is being called a “teaser trailer”, which I suspect will run less than three minutes and not the 25 minutes of awesome footage that was shown at Comic Con.

James Cameron, director and creator behind the oncoming train called “Avatar” was cornered and interviewed last week in San Diego at the annual Comic-Con. James gets his Nerd on pretty good as he discusses filming in 3d and Peter Jackson’s production of the Hobbit with Aintitcool’s Quint.

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From Comic-Con in San Diego comes the best first hand account of the preview footage from James Cameron’s Magnum Opus “Avatar” that I have seen. We Sci-Fi types are earnest but also somewhat jaded. It’s rare to see so many accounts of viewers proclaiming that “Avatar” is different. Different and awesome. Io9, the heralds of this account, have seen some serious Sci-Fi in their times. Here’s a quote from their adventures.

On the mean streets of San Diego (kidding) signs and portents of thrilling things to come at Comic-Con have begun to appear. For the first time, the magnum opus that is or will be James Cameron’s “Avatar” have their alien stars revealed in posters slapped up on light posts all over town. The posters show the blue Na’Vi, staring down upon us Earthers, gazing in judgement at our hubris.

You’ve been seeing some decent Sci-Fi lately. “Star Trek” was terrific. Terminator 4 was disappointing but had it’s moments of gunmetal glory. Soon, “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” will be upon you, commanding your attention with giant neon coloured robots.

I myself, speaking personally, have nothing at all against a nice long movie. When it’s good, let her go. The longer the movie, especially a Sci-Fi movie, the more footage we can nerd over later and dissect, frame by frame. A long movie means a really long DVD cut as well. More added scenes! “Avatar” is going to be great. James Cameron will not disappoint us and we now learn that “Avatar” will have a running time of 189 minutes. That’s more than 3 hours! All of that in glorious digital 3D kids. Bring the visine. The inside scoop via Slashfilm.