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James Cameron is Shooting HOW MANY Avatar Sequels at the Same Time?

Nix June 26, 2012

The answer is: Three. That’s three sequels to “Avatar”. All shot back-to-back-to-back, apparently. Or at least, that’s according to “Avatar” star Sigourney Weaver, who let the info slip out. Also according to Weaver, the first of the sequels will begin production as soon as this Fall. In an article by Showbiz 411 about Weaver’s upcoming political show on cable TV called “Political Animals”, the conversation immediately switched to “Avatar”, which is where Weaver dropped the bomb. Then she films “Avatar” 2, 3, and 4 with James Cameron. That’s right: they’re making three sequels to the blue 3D phenom all at the same time. Weaver says she has no idea how long it will take, or how it’s going to work. “I just show up,” she said. If “Political Animals” is renewed, USA will have to wait until all that’s over. And it’s not like Weaver is the only busy person in her household: husband director Jim Simpson is debuting a… Continue Reading »

James Cameron is Making Avatar Movies. That’s It. Period. End of Story.

Nix May 7, 2012

James Cameron loves him some “Avatar” sequels, because apparently that’s all he’ll be doing from now on. So you can forget that “Battle Angel” movie, kids. It’s “Avatar”, all the time for Cameron now. Speaking to the New York Times about the merits of working with/in China and the film industry as a whole over the weekend, Cameron dropped the stunning news: I’ve made two movies in 16 years, and I’ve done eight expeditions. Last year I basically completely disbanded my production company’s development arm. So I’m not interested in developing anything. I’m in the “Avatar” business. Period. That’s it. I’m making “Avatar 2,” “Avatar 3,” maybe “Avatar 4,” and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them. I’m not interested in taking scripts. And that all sounds I suppose a little bit restricted, but the point is I think within the “Avatar” landscape I can say everything I need to say that I think needs to be… Continue Reading »

James Cameron Insist He’s Still Doing Battle Angel. You Know, Some Day. Probably.

Nix April 18, 2012

Is anyone surprise that James Cameron won’t be touching his “Battle Angel” movie until he gets done with the two “Avatar” films he’s got up his sleeve? Nah, not really. How much did “Avatar” make again, a few quazillion dollars? Something like that. Talking to MTV, Cameron pretty much confirms that the “Avatar” movies are up next, with “Battle Angel” somewhere in the future. Probably. I see the good the ‘Avatar’ franchise can do in terms of keeping a world audience cognizant of our relationship with nature, but doing it in an entertainment context. Ultimately I think there’s more good to be done there than with ‘Battle Angel.’ ‘Battle Angel’ is just a great, kick ass story. So are you saying the upcoming two “Avatar” movies WON’T be “a great, kick ass story”, James, but rather something we can “learn” from? Ugh. I already learned that blue people have sex using their tails. I’m not sure I wanna know more… Continue Reading »

Cameron Confirms Avatar 2 and 3 for 2011 Start Date

Nix October 27, 2010

Hey, “Avatar” fans, can’t get enough of the blue people, but tired of buying the 50 different versions of the “Avatar” DVDs? You’re in luck, because Cameron and Fox have announced that the writer/director will begin work on scripts for “Avatar 2″ and “Avatar 3″ early next year with an eye toward putting both films into production back-to-back sometime in late 2011. LOS ANGELES (October 27, 2010) __ Moving forward with the most anticipated films of the next decade, Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman announced today that Academy Award®-winning filmmaker James Cameron has agreed to make AVATAR 2 and 3 as his next films. Cameron, who had always viewed AVATAR as the creation of a new world and mythology, will begin work on the scripts early next year with an eye towards commencing production later in 2011. Cameron will decide if he will shoot the films back-to-back after he completes the scripts, but the release of… Continue Reading »

James Cameron Talks Avatar Novel, Sequels

Nix August 9, 2010

James Cameron recently updated MTV on the progress of his “Avatar” world, specifically the “Avatar” novel that he’s currently trying to finish, and where the “Avatar” movies currently stand. “‘Avatar 2′… we’re still working on deals. We don’t start the movie until we get the deals worked out,” he said. “I’m making notes. I’m not sitting idle,” Cameron said. “But really, what I’m working on primarily is the novel.” He continued, “I never had a chance to get the novel done while we were making the movie, and I always intended to. I didn’t want to do a cheesy novelization, where some hack comes in and kind of makes s–t up. I wanted to do something that was a legitimate novel that was inside the characters’ heads and didn’t have the wrong culture stuff, the wrong language stuff, all that.” Once the novel is out there, Cameron hopes that others will help him in further fleshing out the universe. There… Continue Reading »

District 10 Starts Pre-Production, Avatar 2 Spoiler, and Mortal Engines is a Go

Nix April 27, 2010

The boys at Market Saw have some great updates on some highly anticipated upcoming films, including two sequels and one original. Up first, James Cameron’s “Avatar 2″, which should make even more money than the first, if that’s even possible. A source tells MS something very interesting about the film’s plot: “Oh and Pandora has a lot of shit coming its way. Break out the space marines, looks like some bugs need a stomping.” Ooooh. Does this mean the humans and Na’vi actually team up this time to fight some alien invaders? It would be nice not to see us humans as the bad guys. I mean, come on, are we really THAT bad a people, James? Anyhoo. Over to Peter Jackson land, MS has updates on two of his WETA-backed projects: “Mortal Engines” and the “District 9″ sequel, tentatively titled “District 10″. The good news is that “Engines” is “definitely a go”, and will be based on a series… Continue Reading »

Avatar Tree Of Souls Gets Real In London

endymi0n April 21, 2010

For all those people devastated that Pandora is not a real place and suicidal to learn that they won’t be growing elf ears and turning into a gigantic skinny smurf any time soon, you’ll be panting to know that a piece of Pandora is coming to you soon. To celebrate the forecoming blu-ray release of “Avatar”, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment will be planting the Tree Of Souls into the fertile earth of Speakers Corner, on the edge of Hyde Park in London. The Tree will be the largest fibre optic installation in Europe, with 20 miles of cable. The lights will change by the movements and sounds of the people, gently swaying under it. Pilgrims can even plug in their iPods (and brainstems?) so that the optical magic above with jive along with their playlists. The Tree will be up for 3 days, starting on Earth day and will be unveiled by Stephen Lang (Col. Miles Quaritch), bulldozer of… Continue Reading »

Cameron To Explore 3D Oceans In Avatar 2

endymi0n April 21, 2010

Obviously, the planning for “Avatar 2″ and 3 and etc, are well underway. Once you’ve hopped from tree to tree and run screaming through an alien jungle ( a rain forest is what it’s called only if you haven’t been in one) with speedy, tank like dinosaurs intent on pulverizing your most precious appendages, there’s really no point in belabouring the point. But James Cameron is a crafty and creative dude. He now says that instead of retreading that old wilderness camping trip from “Avatar 1″, next time we’ll be going deep into the seas of Pandora and perhaps elsewhere. In an interview with the L.A. Times: We created a broad canvas for the environment of film. 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. I’ve already announced this, so… Continue Reading »

Zoe Saldana Talks Avatar 2

Nix April 14, 2010

Zoe Saldana is currently doing the promo rounds for her upcoming comic book movie “The Losers”, basically a campier version of “The A-Team”, and of course, “Avatar 2″ came up. So what does the lovely Miss Zoe know? Not a lot, but some. She tells StarPulse about coming back as the asskickingest blue warrior since Smurfette took out the Thundercats singlehandedly (what, you never saw it? Great episode): “[James Cameron] already knows how I like to approach it. I need at least 6 to 7 months of training and stuff to get into Neytiri again and whatever’s going to happen is going to happen. “It does take training. It’s not something that I can just turn on and off. Everything is a learned skill. The same way it took me like 2 to 3 months to channel Aisha, you know Neytiri is going to take her time as well. I mean, there are people we are kind of incarnating. It… Continue Reading »

Wait, There Will be More Na’vi in Avatar 2 or Whatever it Ends Up Being Called?

Nix March 1, 2010

While James Cameron was attending the Visual Effects Society Awards in Hollywood over the weekend, SciFiWire got in a few questions about — of course — “Avatar 2″. According to Cameron, the sequel won’t be called “Avatar”, since the hero Jake Sully is no longer an avatar at the end of the movie. Which makes sense. Then Cameron adds that the sequel would delve even more into the spiritual aspect of the Na’vi culture. “I think we can see that there’s a greater receptivity to it on the part of the audience than certainly the studio originally imagined. We pared back on it a fair bit in the first film, and I think we can go farther in that direction and not alienate people.” This would seem to contradict previous reports that had an “Avatar” sequel leaving the planet Pandora for other remote parts of the universe. Honestly, I would have liked to see more of an expansion on the… Continue Reading »

Like Avatar? Like War? They’ll be Lots of Both in Avatar Sequel.

Nix February 2, 2010

MarketSaw is a great blog to visit if you’re into cutting edge 3D stuff. I’m not a big fan of 3D, but the site is also pretty good for scoops about upcoming interesting films. For instance, they were all over James Cameron’s “Avatar” from the very beginning, and it looks like they’ve gotten a toehold on the sequel as well. On the upcoming “Avatar” sequel, a source has told them that the film will be made “within 4 years”. And the plot? AVATAR 2 will be full blown war. War is coming – Jim Cameron war that is! We know that Cameron and Landau are taking AVATAR sequels OFF of Pandora and I am working closely with my sources to determine exactly where they will take place. The idea, it seems, was always to leave Pandora for other parts of the universe, which would make sense. The Na’vi are nice to look at and all (when they’re not shooting you… Continue Reading »

Is Pre-Production For Avatar 2 Already Underway?

endymi0n January 28, 2010

Well I would hope so, considering how long it took for James Cameron to make the first one. Of course, there’s a lot of material all ready to yank from the assets of the first extravaganza. There is tons of blue tinted stuff and leafy bio-luminescent alien flora. Mountains somehow defying gravity, check, got that. Toothy alien jungle critters. Plenty of those. To be honest, although I really loved the first “Avatar”, I’m not really sure how much more story there is to tell. The world setup is pretty simple. I’m assuming the human menace will return and this time bring bigger mechs and nastier, maybe four rotor, helicopters. We’ll have another villain, this time more gruesome and scowling. Io9 chatted up Robert Stromberg, production designer for “Avatar” and he had this to say. “We’ve chatted about certain things,” says Stromberg. “I’m going to see Jim [Cameron] next Tuesday. I’m sure we’re going to talk about it.” Since these guys… Continue Reading »

James Cameron Confirms Avatar Sequel

endymi0n January 8, 2010

Considering the fact that “Avatar” is a printing press for money and is now the most successful Sci-Fi movie in history, a sequel is likely a good bet. But James Cameron is a man that marches to his own beat so you can never be really, really sure…until he confirms it himself and he did last night at the Arclight theatre in L.A. in yet another screening for “Avatar”. There was a Q&A after the film with James and a couple of effects guys. James Cameron officially gives us notice with the quote: Yes, there’ll be another. The next movie will be much easier to make of course. There won’t be a need to invent new tech and all the amazing art assets for the visuals will be already on someones hard drive. Maybe with the extra time they’ll have they can come up with a slightly better story to go with all the industrial light and magic. Thanks AintItCool… Continue Reading »