Cirque du Soleil and James Cameron will create a tour of the Avatar.

The famous director James Cameron and Canadian Cirque du Soleil will create a circus show based on the 2009 Avatar film. This was the director and president of the Canadian circus Daniel Lamarr at the Montreal Conference C2MTL-Commerce and Creativity, writes the Montreal The Gazette .

It is planned that the first performance within this project will be held at the end of 2015.

Cameron and Cirque du Soleil have previously cooperated. In 2012, Cameron acted as the producer of the 3D-kinoversion of the Cirque du Soleil show. “For years, I discovered the exceptional talent and imagination of artists and creators of Cirque du soleil. We have a common goal: to show the audience a different level of impressions of entertainment. This is what I want from the project,” Cameron quotes The Guardian .

The performance of the Avatar, the Twentieta Century Fox, and the Lightstorm Entertainment production studio, will be financed by the performer of Avatar.

The 2009 Avatar became the most time film of all time. He raised a total of $ 2.7 billion. Cameron is currently preparing for the filming of the Avatar. In total, three sequels of the film are planned. Filming the first will begin in October 2014, and it will be released in 2016.

The first film takes place in 2154. According to the plot, humanity, having practically exhausted resources on Earth, begins to extract minerals on other planets and space objects. On Pandora - a valuable alpha centaurus colonized by people with a satellite of the gas planet in the star system of the Alpha Centaurus. For the study of Pandora, avatars are used - artificially grown hybrids of the bodies of people and the indigenous people of the satellite of Na'vi (three -meter blue -skinned humanoids). The main character in the form of an avatar is sent to Pandora to study the customs of local residents, which in the future should expand the possibilities of earthlings for the extraction of anobtanium.

The Canadian company Cirque du Soleil ("Circus of the Sun") defines its activity as a combination of circus art and street performances. Under the brand Circue du Soleil, more than 30 shows were released. In 2009, Cirque du Soleil was first shown in Russia.