Avatar
Considering the box office success of the first Avatar film, it is surprising in a lot of ways that they haven’t hit the sequel yet and that it’s not coming until 2016 for the first one, with two more following in the two years thereafter. Hollywood is not a place where cash is left on the table, but James Cameron tends to play outside the norm as we’ve seen over the years and that generally works out to be a good thing for people involved. With the sequels getting firm dates, Cameron has provided another update on the status of the three films that are going to begin production later this year, cementing for fans that he’s definitely progressing with it.
“We’re still in the early stages. Right now we’re developing the software. I’m writing the scripts. We’re designing all the creatures and characters and the settings, and so on. So, I’m not actually directing yet, but I’m doing all the other creative processes that lead up to that… It’s going very well. I think it’s going to be spectacular. You’ll see new worlds, new habitats, new cultures. The primary conflict between the human view kind of dominating nature and the Na’vi view of being integrated into nature is the same, but it manifests itself in very different ways.”
Naturally, story pieces were not something that he talked about, but with essentially a whole galaxy of potential out there based on the first film he created and not feeling limited, he’s got a few ideas:
“That’s the great thing about Avatar, it’s such a rich world, I can explore any theme or any idea that I want. Once you’ve got the characters that an audience loves, it’s great to surprise them and make changes and turns that they don’t expect. And you don’t have to spend so much time of the movie setting up all that stuff, because the audience will remember from the previous film.”
[Source: Collider]