But if that is the case, it just muddies Cameron's argument to no real gain. And I really don't think Avatar, the film in which the protagonist is lectured about how killing animals which are trying to eat him is Very Sad Only, has the nuance in it to be pushing the notion of an idealised technological utopia creating a perfect artificial ecosystem, when the Primitive Is Pure line on this is so strong.
It's pure naivete to think Disney would just let a movie that made over two billion fade away into obscurity.
Of course not they can't do a whole movie without humans in it don't be ridiculous. That wouldn't fit with the deep lore of Pandora - The World of Avatar.
I think remembering reading somewhere that in the original script the Unobtainium was actually necessary to save Earth (instead of simply being a supra-conductor even better than any metal on Earth), explaining why the humans were so aggressive in their extraction operations.
I find it very funny that he spent all this time and money on "research" deep underwater… when the protagonists of this film it was nominally all for aren't allowed to use any of the technology you need to actually get down there to the weird stuff. From what I understand this is just going to be whale riding and skin diving into Pandora's reefs or whatever.
