With Avatar finding its way onto DVD and Blu-ray next Monday, director James Cameron has been chatting about the franchise to the Los Angeles Times.
And while confirming that he’s prepping six minutes of extra footage for a Stateside cinematic Avatar re-release this August (no word if we’ll get that on UK shores), he spoke a little more about his plans for Avatar 2.
“We created a broad canvas for the environment of film,” Cameron said. “That’s not just on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out across that system and incorporate more into the story – not necessarily in the second film, but more toward a third film.”
Cheers for that, we like our information nice and vague. How about some plot hints?
“Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment,” Cameron elaborates, “a different setting within Pandora.
“I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.”
Which makes sense both thematically and visually for a follow-up – with the first Avatar we explored the earth and the air of Pandora, we can’t wait to see what the oceans have in store.
Let’s just hope is doesn’t consist of a big underground bubble city like Otoh Gunga in Phantom Menace. Mermaid Na'Vi, then?
Where do you want Avatar 2 to go? Away? Let us know!
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Rusco87
Apr 21st 2010, 11:07
Let me guess, cameron will go on about the ocean rising and the ice caps melting. Just like he went on about destroying rain forests in the first instalment. I left the cinema feeling like i had sat through a two and a half hour lecture on how the planet we live in is being destroyed.
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DonisFun
Apr 21st 2010, 11:30
Yep I agree with Rusco87 but I also had the feeling I was watching a pile of s**t for two and a half hours..... I really wish they had destroyed Pandora!
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alllewel
Apr 21st 2010, 13:44
Agree with both above, Avatar was utter eco-themed rubbish at best. Just wish Cameron would stop thinking about box office numbers and went back to making adult movies like Terminator and Aliens. Also drop the 3D bollocks and get a good story down on paper.
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donnelly95
Apr 21st 2010, 18:26
i agree with all above, avatars story was a huge stretch for cash! i fell asleep in this movie, i have never fallen asleep in a movie since i could talk! avatar 2 should be chucked in the bin and cameron should be back on track with real movies..theres only few who go against avatar and i think the world should open their eyes to the preachy squeeze avatar was.
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MisterTwister
Apr 21st 2010, 20:59
From Cameron's comments it doesnt look like hes taken on board any criticism of the 1st Avatar. Sounds like hes producing another shallow gimmick of a film. Heres a tip Jim - if you add a storyline you might have a realistic chance of an oscar.
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DanielMcA
Apr 21st 2010, 21:31
Re-release? Yes, because so few people got to see it. I don't think it came to my local cinema. What was it called again?
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doncobaino
Apr 21st 2010, 21:33
the new film needs to go into space, make the navvi use the abandoned ships from the mining folk not really bothered how but the 10 seconds of space action at the start of avatar was the best part of the film....
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Nickey09
Apr 23rd 2010, 23:35
I'd settle for skipping a sequel and making a comic book series out of it. That way the artists could do what they had intended and create beautiful artwork for people to marvel at, without the above folk falling asleep or complaining.
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SussexUK
Apr 24th 2010, 23:04
First one was bad enough now you're telling me there will be TWO more. Good God! Has to be the most overrated most marketed movie pile of trash of all time. Shoot me now.
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Kirill
Apr 25th 2010, 7:31
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Kirill
Apr 25th 2010, 7:42
Film of "AVATAR" is magnificent, it is film a metaphor, in it a lot of sense disappears. This film for reasonable and thinking people. And "AVATAR" very beautiful and majestic film
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ilikescifi
Apr 25th 2010, 13:49
i watched it with headphones on it looked amazing, i like the 3d 'tone' he set for the film. i think he has a good sense of space and movement. i'd watch The Abyss in 3d
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DanielMcA
Apr 26th 2010, 19:18
"in it a lot of sense disappears" You speak the truth my Slavic friend.
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strongbow21
Mar 20th 2012, 16:53
I love it, he's done dances with wolves now he's doing waterworld lol
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