Sci-Fi Avatar: The Way Of Water

[Iceman]

Avatar 5?! Haha this guy doesn't lack ambition at least.

 

[Victarion]

I can't even see the bar at this point.

 

[Primal Slayer]

I hope they are shooting 4 movies back2back because Avatar is the furtherest thing from audiences minds and the box office may not be as great as the first one.

 

[Iceman]

It feels like the first film was decades ago.

 

[Victarion]

It'll have been near that by the time part two comes out. Two years shy of a decade, but still.

 

[Gold Samurai]

I hope they are shooting 4 movies back2back because Avatar is the furtherest thing from audiences minds and the box office may not be as great as the first one.

People have this odd desire to give James Cameron a billion dollars. It started with Titanic then people were curious about Avatar.

 

[Iceman]

I just looked at the other big films of 2009 - Revenge of the Fallen, Half Blood Prince, New Moon, Up, The Hangover, Star Trek. I'm sure it's just me but Avatar seems like it came out ages before those for some reason lol. I guess they seem more recent because most have had sequels since.

 

[Marvolo]

Stephen Lang Offers “Avatar 2” Update

By
Garth Franklin -

Monday, August 29th 2016 3:48 am
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Hard to believe but the “Avatar” sequel was originally targeting a late 2013 release, that was until filmmaker James Cameron kept expanding the scope of his films and adding further entries so at this point they’re aiming to do four more films in the series. It has taken a long time to get things in shape but now it looks like production is about ready to kick into high gear in a few months.
One of the returning faces for the trip back to Pandora is the first film’s villain Colonel Miles Quaritch played by Stephen Lang. Lang, who stars in this past weekend’s box-office topper “Don’t Breathe,” recently spoke with AICN and says filming will begin early 2017. Talking about the delay:

“Yeah, the reading of things. We’re getting there. We’re in good shape. We’ll be starting certainly early in the new year. But you know, the thing is, as you can imagine with a film like Avatar, it’s not like the work hasn’t been going on. The design, the production design, the various worlds, and creatures and environments, that’s all being worked on.”
That’s what he’s done, he creates problems in which he then needs to invent a technology and a new way to do it, and I believe that’s part of the quite perverse joy for him in this is creating these seemingly insurmountable problems, and then bringing aboard people who can be helpful and say, ‘This is what we’ve got to do.’ So it’s a massive effort, but I have every expectation because I’m pretty intimately aware of what’s going. It’s going to be an absolute joy to behold.”
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Lang says right now things are on track to meet the target release dats with “Avatar 2” in December 2018, “Avatar 3” in 2020, and then “Avatar 4” and “Avatar 5” in 2022 and 2023.

 

[Iceman]

It would be crazy because these aren't small or medium scale films. If it did happen I wonder what shape Cameron would be in after!

 

[Marvolo]

It would be crazy because these aren't small or medium scale films. If it did happen I wonder what shape Cameron would be in after!

Cameron's going to get cyborg implants to extend his life so he can make Avatar 37 in 2097 and he's going to make Fox pay for the implants.

 

[Iceman]

Cameron's going to get cyborg implants to extend his life so he can make Avatar 37 in 2097 and he's going to make Fox pay for the implants.

If it was anyone else I wouldn't believe this.

Lol, and getting Fox to pay for it would be the easy bit. Who doesn't want 36 x JC mega-film box office hauls!

 

[TheVileOne]

Cameron's going to get cyborg implants to extend his life so he can make Avatar 37 in 2097 and he's going to make Fox pay for the implants.

We'll still be waiting for Avatar 2 at that point

 

[Sawyer]

Cameron's going to get cyborg implants to extend his life so he can make Avatar 37 in 2097 and he's going to make Fox pay for the implants.

lol @ you thinking this man would make 26 movies over an 81 year period.

 

[Schlosser85]

Before making 5 sequels, shouldn't he actually make some progress on #2? Then maybe I'll get interested.

 

[Kyle]

Checked to see what was going on... Green light on Avatar 297, no progress on 2. Got it. I really can't believe this is the way Cameron went, it feels like he's lost his mind. The development of these films isn't really fun to watch yet is, like a train wreck. He's this generarion's Howard Hughes in a way, it feels like.

 

[Sawyer]

I'll be really curious to see, when/if the second one hits theaters, whether the success of the first film was novelty-based or not.

 

[:eek:]

I just looked at the other big films of 2009 - Revenge of the Fallen, Half Blood Prince, New Moon, Up, The Hangover, Star Trek. I'm sure it's just me but Avatar seems like it came out ages before those for some reason lol. I guess they seem more recent because most have had sequels since.

Yeah, they've got sequels that range from mediocre to pure garbage. I rather wait ten years for a sequel that some ambition has been put into, than the average two-three years for a sequel that you can predict, the moment it's announced, will have absolutely nothing new to offer.

 

[Sawyer]

................ 'kay.

 

[Kyle]

Problem with that, we're not talking Avatar 2. We're talking Avatar 2,3,4,5. If history has taught us anything it's that films that act as gateways for other films trying to set up too much and being too ambitious more than often fall under their own weight. And that's exactly what Cameron is doing here. I have little faith that it won't fail due to aiming too high and aiming to set up too much. Why he can't just put his focus into making one or two good to great films rather than grouping four at once is beyond me.

 

[Sithborg]

I'll be really curious to see, when/if the second one hits theaters, whether the success of the first film was novelty-based or not.

There are going to be a lot of interesting factors that come into play. #1 will be the exchange rate. When we are talking the kinds of numbers Avatar did, fluctuations in the exchange rate will be more pronounced. Avatar will have much stronger competition, domestically, as it appears studios are going to attempt to make Feb work. The 3D fad of course is dying down, but I don't think it will be that much of an issue. Avatar was the best 3D experience for most, so I think they will be willing to return to the format.

I know its the only movie I am willing to see in 3D.

 

[titansupes]

Plus, almost ten years between the biggest movie of all time and its sequel... that's long enough for the marketing team to press the nostalgia button.

 

[Iceman]

I'll be really curious to see, when/if the second one hits theaters, whether the success of the first film was novelty-based or not.

The excess success was definitely novelty but there might be a consistent billion dollar franchise underneath the novelty. There is plenty of room to fall from $2.8B before it reaches a consistent novelty-free franchise level and it'll be interesting to see where it lands.

 

[Zant]

Still can't believe how much the first made worldwide. Star Wars did not even get close to
it. If guys like Ridley Scott and George Miller are still going strong then I am sure James still has plenty to give.

 

[psylockolussus]

I just looked at the other big films of 2009 - Revenge of the Fallen, Half Blood Prince, New Moon, Up, The Hangover, Star Trek. I'm sure it's just me but Avatar seems like it came out ages before those for some reason lol. I guess they seem more recent because most have had sequels since.

When I think of 2009 in film. Avatar and Star Trek then X-Men Origins (obviously) come into my mind. It was huge at that time.

 

[Iceman]

When I think of 2009 in film. Avatar and Star Trek then X-Men Origins (obviously) come into my mind. It was huge at that time.

Oh yes that was in 2009 too. That one does feel really old though, maybe because I was trying to forget it!