Alien hotness

UPDATE – James Cameron wrote into Ain’t It Cool saying, “Aside from two legs, two arms and a tail,” the below artwork “doesn’t have any features in common with our final designs.” So there.

James Cameron’s monumental sci-fi epic AVATAR is coming next year… no, wait! Not until May 2009? Gah! So I guess this really is an early glimpse of the flick’s alien species (assuming it’s actual concept art, as it was presented), which means we have a long time to wait for verification.

The movie follows a war veteran dispatched to a distant world, where he and others clash with indigenous humanoid lifeforms, some of whom are apparently sexy blue bioluminescent babes with tails. Nice planet. The FX-loaded 3-D film stars Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Matt Gerald, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, Wes Studi, Stephen Lang, CCH Pounder, Michelle Rodriguez and the stunning Zoe Saldana, possibly playing this lithe extraterrestrial lady.

NOTE: The image was submitted to us without a source, but we’re told the online point of origin is RIGHT HERE.