James Cameron to Make 3D Movie on Brazilian Dam

James Cameron, the self-proclaimed King of the World, said on Sunday that he will head to Brazil later this year to make a 3D film on the indigenous people of the Amazon who oppose construction of a huge dam for fear it could flood tribal lands, reports AFP.

"I want to return to meet some of the leaders of the Xikrin-Kayapo tribe who invited me," Cameron said in an interview published in the Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper.

The documentary appears to eerily parallel the story of Avatar, which tells the story of the peaceful Na'Vi people who live in harmony with nature on the planet Pandora, and wage a bloody fight against strip-miners from Earth. "I want to take a 3D camera to film how they live, their culture," said Cameron.

The filmmaker has already come to the Amazon twice in a show of support for the indigenous tribe, and to film a short piece on their resistance to the damming project on the Xingu River, which will be included on the Avatar DVD to be released around Christmas.

Opponents of the dam project say it is not economically viable and would cause the displacement of 16,000 people, because it would create a flood zone of 500 square kilometers along the banks of the Xingu.

The government says no indigenous land would be threatened, and that it has spent millions on reducing the social and environmental impact of the dam.