Avatar Sequel (James Cameron)

Posted: 09.09.2012 08:59

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James Cameron Says Avatar 4 Would be a Prequel

Earlier this week, producer Jon Landau clarified the rumor that a fourth Avatar movie is in the works, saying that they are only doing the second and third films back-to-back for now. But, as James Cameron said previously, he does have an idea for a fourth film.

MTV caught up with the filmmaker, who revealed that the fourth installment would be a prequel.

"I haven't really put pen to paper on it, but basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what went wrong with the humans and the Na'vi and what that was like to be an explorer and living in that world," he said, adding, "Because when we drop in, even in the first film in 'Avatar 1,' as it will be known in the future, we're dropping into a process that's 35 years in to a whole colonization. That will complete an arc and if that leads into more, we'll start, not imitating 'Star Wars,' but it's a logical thing to do because we'll have completed the thematic arc by the end of three. The only thing left to do is go back to see what it was like on those first expeditions and create some new characters that then become legacy characters in later films. It's a plan."

Regarding the next two films, he is still working on the story. "I'm writing two scripts together as one big thing." Twentieth Century Fox was targeting a December 2014 release date for Avatar 2 and a December 2015 release for Avatar 3.

(comingsoon.net)

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Posted: 29.11.2012 11:50

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The Avatar Sequels to Start Filming in 2013

James Cameron is banking on Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey to be a hit. In an interview with The West Austrailian, he says he thinks The Hobbit will do for high-definition filmmaking what Avatar did for 3D. "If there is acceptance of 48 (FPS), then that will pave the way for Avatar (sequels) to take advantage of it," Cameron said.

Cameron was at the premiere for Jackson's new movie in New Zealand where he's working on the scripts for the upcoming second and third Avatar films. The writer director says he wants to have them completed by February and begin shooting the pair at the end of 2013.

"I want to get these scripts nailed down, I don't want to be writing the movie in post production," he said. "We kind of did that on the first picture, I ended up cutting out a lot of scenes and so on and I don't want to do that again."

Little is known about the upcoming sequels except that Cameron would like to focus on the oceans and underwater ecosystems of the planet Pandora. The director has also said if a fourth film were to be made, it would be a prequel.

(comingsoon.net)

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Maestro

Posted: 07.05.2013 15:08

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Zoe Saldana Confirms 2014 Shoot for Avatar Sequels

It has long been rumored that the upcoming sequels for James Cameron's Avatar would be filmed consecutively, much like The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix sequels. Speaking on "The Jonathan Ross Show" (via Digital Spy) actress Zoe Saldana confirmed these plans along with a potential start date.

"I think that they're doing a part two and a part three and they're probably going to shoot it at the same time...If we just do two and then wait, I'll probably be 45 or 50 by the time we get to part three. It takes a long time, it's a very hard process."

Previous reports on the sequels had the film targeting a late 2013 production start but Saldana confirmed an early 2014 start date for the filming.

No release date has been set for either film, but Avatar 2 was originally targeted for a December, 2014 release and Avatar 3 for December, 2015.

(comingsoon.net)

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