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James Cameron Gives ‘Avatar’ Sequels Update
James Cameron has announced an update to the upcoming three sequels to Avatar, the top grossing movie of all time.
Cameron told RTL, “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.”
He added, “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 of dominating nature and the Na’vi view of being integrated into nature is the same, but it manifests itself in very different ways.” (via MarketSaw)
The movies will focus on the lead character Jake (Sam Worthington) and his new life on planet Pandora.
Cameron did not release any details about the upcoming films, but did speak of the many possibilities of his Avatar world.
“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.”
Cameron will shoot all three sequels in New Zealand. The first Avatar film took almost four years to make, released in 2009 and made $2.782 billion in worldwide box office. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, and Stephen Lang will return for all three sequels.
Avatar 2 will be released in December 2016, with the third and forth film set to release in 2017 and 2018.