James Cameron on Avatar 2 and Avatar 3
Work is pressing ahead on Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, as James Cameron gives an update on the films...
As you might expect, James Cameron is hard at work putting together the building blocks of his two planned follow-ups to Avatar, which he was apparently intending to start filming later this year. Also as you might expect, he's keeping most of his plans close to his chest at the moment, although in a new interview with PlayGoesStrong, he's chatted a little about just what he's up to.
"I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson", he revealed, "and said 'you had it easy dude. You had the books when you did the second and third Lord Of The Rings. I have to create my own books in my head and extract a script from it'".
Revealing that he's hard at work in New Zealand on the writing of Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, Cameron admitted "I'm deep into it and I'm living in Pandora right now. There is that start up torque where you feel it's coming to you. Then you build up momentum. That's when it gets fun. The characters talk and it's writing itself. I'm almost there right now. It's building fast".
He wasn't able to confirm a release date for either of the new Avatar films, admitting that it will be "determined by when I get the script out". It does sound like those scripts are edging close to completion, though.
More on the Avatar sequels as we hear it.
PlayGoesStrong via Bleeding Cool.
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Lol didnt he just rip of pocohontas and fern gully etc etc easy my ass by bull!
It's interesting reading this. He of course has moved from California to New Zealand, at least for now, which is not mentioned.
So he is into this. But with regard to what this is ... I loved Avatar when I saw it, and found the 3D to be immersive rather than distracting and irritating, as it almost always is. He did such a great job of world building, though I see the usual cynical bit below about Pocahontas.
But the thing is the movie didn't stick with me in the end, unlike virtually all his other films.
if the story is as bad as no.1, no thank you... 3D wise it was a feast to watch.
Well, story aside, with Avatar 2 and 3 we would at least get a couple of movies that know how to use 3D and are filmed in it.
What? Avatar films have scripts?! When did this happen?
I can't remember what was so bad about the story - I wasn't impressed, but I liked it well enough. And MY GOD it looked fantastic.
That's exactly how I feel too. I remember liking the film, and being amazed by the beauty of the film, but I wasn't moved by the story as much if at all. Any chance to Sigourney Weaver on the big screen is a treat for me though.
Cameron is very much into the message of the movie, about preserving and honoring the environment and world spirit if you will. In the real world, I remember he took Arnold with him to Brazil to get involved in opposing major deforestation in the Amazon.
But the story as such in the movie didn't quite draw me in.
It was great seeing Sigourney Weaver, who we will see again, even though she died in corporeal form, due to her being part of the Gaia consciousness now.
Does anyone else think a sequel to Avatar wouldn't do nearly as well at the box office as the first one now all that initial hype's worn off?
Forget pandora. Klendathu! Klendathu! All bugs must diiiie!!!
Couldn't he just have left these sequels at the bottom of the Mariana Trench....
I would love to see the two sequels to James Cameron's AVATAR. In fact, I have seen James Cameron's AVATAR and I like the visuals, but I think it is the fact that the main character was an American soldier, and the fact that he assimilates into the culture that is native to a strange new place, that made people scream it copied Dances with Wolves, Fern Gully or even Pocahontas.
That is partially why my dream project--a multi-part big screen live action/animated dinosaur-infused epic blockbuster film series of a Dexter's Laboratory reboot, "Dexter's Odyssey"--would be even bigger, even more complex, and even more ambitious an epic motion picture film production project than James Cameron's AVATAR--and much, much better than that film.
Not to mention I shall someday make my dinosaur-infused Dexter's Laboratory reboot someday--and partially in response to even those who criticized James Cameron’s AVATAR for its clichéd story, plot and characters, but...
Dexter’s Odyssey might not always and actually be my multi-part atonement to James Cameron’s derivative space opera that showed the world what 3-D might actually do (but didn’t, post-Avatar), but rather, among other things, mainly my spirited defense of James Cameron’s right to have made AVATAR in the first place.
In fact, both epic motion picture film production projects—technically arduous, though they might be—might as well be cut from the same cloth--in terms of visuals and ambitions, of course.