中國對阿凡達的反應

Will we ever get to see China's disastrous answer to Avatar?
我們會明白中國對阿凡達災難式的回應?

It's been two years since we showed you the trailer for Empires of the Deep, the legendary $130 million epic about mermaids that was geared to be China's answer to Avatar. The movie actually filmed back in 2010. Will we ever see it? Hard to say. Update: We heard from one of the film's directors.

More behind-the-scenes info has been coming out about Empires lately. In particular, back in July, an extra who played a bunch of roles in the film released his filming diary, in which he talks about playing a quasi-Spartan soldier, a villager who gets captured by pirates, and a merman. Part one is here and part two is here, but the gist of it is that filming was chaotic and went on for months, with the extra having to show up for makeup at 4 AM and then report on set at 9 AM, only to find that filming didn't start until 4 PM because none of the crew had shown up — and then they were losing light.

11/18/2014