By Chatting to Empire magazine, Avatar producer Jon Landau took the time to answer some rumours about James Cameron’s forthcoming sequel and refuted suggestions that the film would either predominantly take place in the oceans or away from Pandora. Water will apparently play some part in the movie, but only to the same extent as the Floating Mountains from the first, which had relatively little screen time despite becoming Pandora’s most famous tourist attraction for captured images.
He also stated that although three Avatar films were planned, each would have a stand alone story rather than dividing a single narrative into three parts. Considering how trilogies like The Matrix and Pirates of the Carribean lost a lot of fans after attempting to contrive a beloved first film’s individual story into becoming the first of a three parter (although I like The Matrix Reloaded, so boo to you all), that’s probably a wise creative decision, especially since the first Avatar wrapped itself up pretty thoroughly.
According to a report last week from Variety (which you can read hereif you subscribe to the site or can bear reading on a darkened screen), Cameron and 20th Century Fox have signed an agreement…
Chatting to Empire magazine, Avatar producer Jon Landau took the time to answer some rumours about James Cameron's forthcoming sequel and refuted suggestions that the film would either predominantly take place in the oceans or away from Pandora. Water will apparently play some part in the movie, but only to the same extent as the Floating Mountains from the first, which had relatively little screen time despite becoming Pandora's most famous tourist attraction for captured images.
He also stated that although three Avatar films were planned, each would have a stand alone story rather than dividing a single narrative into three parts. Considering how trilogies like The Matrix and Pirates of the Carribean lost a lot of fans after attempting to contrive a beloved first film's individual story into becoming the first of a three parter (although I like The Matrix Reloaded, so boo to you all), that's probably a wise creative decision, especially since the first Avatar wrapped itself up pretty thoroughly.
According to a report last week from Variety (which you can read here if you subscribe to the site or can bear reading on a darkened screen), Cameron and 20th Century Fox have signed an agreement that has the sequels scheduled for release in December 2014 and 2015 respectively. If that sounds like a long wait for your next fix of glowing foliage, tribal clichés and blue people having interspecies hair sex, it's worse news still for those anticipating Cameron's adaptation of manga series Battle Angel Alita or The Dive: Landau stated that those projects are even "further out" than the Avatar sequels and haven't even been scripted yet. Still, how about those blue people, eh?
[via Empireonline]