Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190728:02:12:00
>> studios were really in love with pre-existing intellectual properties. "avatar" was an idea he had been ruminating on for a long time. it's original and that is a wildly risky thing to do that the budget level. >> i remember taking my then 9-year-old son to see it and we just sat there in 3-d awe. to be so immersed in that world was mind blowing. everything felt real. everything felt tangle. it felt like this world existed. >> "avatar" came out and became the highest grossi ining movie of all time for the second time in james cameron's career. and it's interesting that at the same time, jam...