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OMG! Up to now, all we've seen from James Cameron's upcoming 3-D epic Avatar is a photograph of Cameron on set with star Sam Worthington, and another solo shot of Cameron, so these peaks at concept art for the film, courtesy of the blog MarketSaw, make me very happy because they look so cool.

The blog says that the images are from The Art of Avatar: James Cameron's Epic Adventure, a book that's due to be published in November. As such, they don't represent the final product, of course, but they give a good idea of the look and style that Cameron has in mind for the movie. (That's a presumption on my part.) To quote from a previous post, Avatar "tells of a paraplegic ex-marine war veteran (Worthington) who's sent to establish a human settlement on the distant planet of Pandora, but winds up in a battle against the planet's indigenous population, the Na'vi." The image above shows a pretty wild-looking helicopter pitted against winged creatures; the other pic depicts the power suit that allows humans to explore Pandora.

If you'd like to know more about how the power suit and helicopter fit into the overall scheme of things, head on over to MarketSaw. They have the full-size, full-resolution pics. Right now, I can't wait to see some images in action. When do we get a teaser?

Not long ago, I pointed you toward a story over at Jim Hill Media in which Hill himself talked about how Disney's planned adaptation of the Prince of Persia video game might soon become the studio's next big franchise. We already know the first Persia-related film Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, is currently in development; IMDb lists a release date of 2008 and Charlie Clausen has apparently nabbed the part of the prince.

Our Italian friends (oh yes, Cinematical has friends all over the globe) from Badtaste seemed to have uncovered some promotional artwork for either the film or a new video game. They claim to have received the images in a promotional document from Disney, and promptly scoured the net for similar game-related images, but could not find any that matched. Which, of course, leads us to believe that this is our first look at some of the pre-production artwork for Disney's "next great franchise." Story follows a prince and a rival princess who team up to prevent a villainous ruler from unleashing a world-ending sandstorm. For those of you Prince of Persia fanatics out there, take a look at the pics and let us know what you think?