James Cameron has decided that the best thing to do in between making ‘Avatar’ movies is to direct a Billie Eilish concert in 3D.
No, really. Eilish announced the project to a sold-out crowd at her Manchester show on Saturday night. The 9-time Grammy winner somehow convinced Cameron to direct a new 3D concert film.
“So, you may have noticed there’s more cameras than usual up here,” Eilish told the crowd during her set. “I can’t say much about it, but what I can say is I’m working on something very, very special with somebody named James Cameron, and it’s going to be in 3D.”
The movie is being filmed during the four-show Manchester stop of her “Hit Me Hard and Soft” world tour, which supports her third studio album of the same name. All four nights are being captured by Cameron for the project, with Eilish playfully warning fans that she’ll be wearing “this exact outfit for like four days.”
Cameron, who Eilish said was “in this audience somewhere,” is no stranger to ambitious visual storytelling, but shooting a concert? Total foreign territory.
I’m not dismissing this project in the slightest. Concert films can absolutely rise to the level of great cinema — the twin peaks of the genre arw Jonathan Demme’s “Stop Making Sense” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Waltz.”
No further details have been revealed, but expect speculation to continue in the days to come. Cameron seems to have taken time off post-prod on ‘Avatar: Fire & Ash’ to concentrate on this side project. Hopefully, “Last Train to Hiroshima” is next.