James Cameron's Sequel to "AVATAR" - Part 1

[BlackFox]

No doubt it will be hugely popular like the first.

I was never a massive fan of the original but one thing I will give it, it was the only film I have watched in 3D that actually added something to it and was worth watching that way, Dredd perhaps being the other exception.

 

[Donut]

James Cameron is doing anything to not do Battle Angel

 

[Green Goblin]

Seriously though he needs to direct another terminator movie rather than make a fourth film.

 

[Spade]

Shane Salerno...? He has Ghost Rider, AVP, and AvP: Requiem on his résumé. What an odd choice.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Wow, 3 sequels, thats a lot, but I loved the first film and Cameron is my favourite director of all time so I am sure they will all be great.

 

[Bruce Malone]

Anyone think there may be a slight Matrix sequels effect with this? As in everybody loved the first matrix then the sequels came out a few years later and the people thought that the first sequel was okay at most and a lot of people decided to not even pay attention to the 3rd one due to the box office drop.

Now I'm sure the avatar sequels will be better somewhat than the matrix sequels but I think they're putting the cart before the horse in assuming everybody will be so in love with the first sequel that it will warrant another two right after?

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Anyone think there may be a slight Matrix sequels effect with this? As in everybody loved the first matrix then the sequels came out a few years later and the people thought that the first sequel was okay at most and a lot of people deiced to not even pay attention to the 3rd one due to the box office drop.

Now I'm sure the avatar sequels will be better somewhat than the matrix sequels but I think they're putting the horse before the cart in assuming everybody will be so in love with the first sequel that it will warrant another two right after?

Its a possibility, it happened with Pirates 2 and 3 as well, though they still made a lot of money. But at the other end of the spectrum you have the LOTR movies which were all shot back-to-back and were all superb, so it depends. I love Cameron as a film-maker personally and think he can pull it off.

 

[mclay18]

I really don't know how to respond to this news. On one hand, it's great to see that it's still around. On another I'm still asking myself, are they actually going to make a movie? We've been hearing about this since 2009 with not any information really other than more and more and more films being stacked on top of it.

I think they are going to make this happen. It seems like Cameron was having trouble breaking a storyline for the follow-ups (writer's block happens to everyone at some point), or he just wanted a long break before going back to it. And now that he has an outline to go with, he probably realized "this is too much for two movies and I can't write this all by myself."

And the fact that he's brought in three different writing teams tells me he wants to start production sooner than later. Although if I was Cameron, I would go nuts trying to dividing my time between writing three scripts with four different people. My brain would be fried.

I think Cameron is going to let the writers work mostly from his treatments, and start doing initial prep work. I think he's going to let Friedman, Jaffa/Silver, and Salerno write the scripts themselves and maybe do a polish or final approval before shooting.

 

[MessiahDecoy123]

Even with huge drops Avatar 3 and 4 will make way over 1 billion each.

The sequels will make at least 4 billion total. Well worth the billion dollar price tag.

 

[psylockolussus]

Avatar 2 is taking a lot of time!

 

[roach]

James Cameron knows what he s doing.

 

[Octoberist]

At this point, Avatar 2 is more real than Mad Max Fury Road...Or Battle Angel for that matter.

 

[Octoberist]

I can't wait for the return of the most ironic character of all time: Jake Sully. So iconic, so memorable, so quotable. (sarcasm)

 

[Bruce Malone]

Is sam worthington the luckiest actor in history? So he was plucked out of obscurity pretty much and without being particularly talented, only to end up starring in the biggest film of all time.

Now for the last several years he's bounced around from one unmemorable role to another and now all of a sudden "hey wanna be the lead actor again in a few other films that will gross billions of dollars?"

You can't make this stuff up? Somewhere Mark Hamill is thinking why couldn't it be me?

 

[redhawk23]

Anyone think there may be a slight Matrix sequels effect with this? As in everybody loved the first matrix then the sequels came out a few years later and the people thought that the first sequel was okay at most and a lot of people decided to not even pay attention to the 3rd one due to the box office drop.

Now I'm sure the avatar sequels will be better somewhat than the matrix sequels but I think they're putting the cart before the horse in assuming everybody will be so in love with the first sequel that it will warrant another two right after?

Hopefully the just let each film be its own story, that was the problem with the Matrix sequels, that they were essentially just one long movie.

 

[redhawk23]

At this point, Avatar 2 is more real than Mad Max Fury Road...Or Battle Angel for that matter.

Except that the Mad Max film has actually been shot.

 

[Octoberist]

Is sam worthington the luckiest actor in history? So he was plucked out of obscurity pretty much and without being particularly talented, only to end up starring in the biggest film of all time.

Now for the last several years he's bounced around from one unmemorable role to another and now all of a sudden "hey wanna be the lead actor again in a few other films that will gross billions of dollars?"

You can't make this stuff up? Somewhere Mark Hamill is thinking why couldn't it be me?

But Luke is iconic, especially for being the world's most famous 'straight man' type character. I can't see Jake being like that. At least Mark has that, and his voice work.

 

[TheVileOne]

Are any of these sequels ever going to actually come out?

 

[Octoberist]

Except that the Mad Max film has actually been shot.

I know that, i'm just being facetious since we still have a trailer or a release date for that sucker.

 

[dark_b]

Hopefully the just let each film be its own story, that was the problem with the Matrix sequels, that they were essentially just one long movie.

this would go against having them realesed 1 year apart. in their crazy way they are trying to make a SW,LOTR and Hobbit trilogy. the movie will 100% be connected. i have no proof. but they are realesed every december for 3 years.

 

[redhawk23]

Connected is one thing, but even with the way Jackson moved endings around and things the 3 LotR movies still work pretty well on their own in that the movies have endings, Star Wars even more so. The Matrix sequels were a lot more like a Deathly Hallows situation.

 

[Lord]

James Cameron said he didn't want to disapoint with the sequels like Matrix did

 

[Tequilla]

I think Cameron should do more different SciFi stories instead of making sequel for Avatar and just let it be one shot .

Money. Lots of it.

I really cant' criticize this sort of development. 3 sequels to an immense popular movie sounds extremely reasonable actually.

The James Cameron i loved i think disappeared somewhere in the middle of the 90's , along with his own love for his craft. It's very easy to recognize in interviews with him , hearing him discuss various subjects that he is extremely passionate about a lot of stuff , film-making just isnt one of them.

 

[rashad]

It may not have had the same cultural achievement as Star Wars, but it was oretty close to that, it should be obvious with the fascination for the Na'vi and all the money the film made.

I don't know about all that. Nobody really talks about Avatar like that.

 

[Lord]

I don't know about all that. Nobody really talks about Avatar like that.

Really? Because all over the internet and real life i see many talking about it now and then, there are still aplications to "na'vi yourself", even one of the best gamer teams are called Na'vi. Almost everybody seems to have watched and liked it, i still think Harry Potter is the closest to this generation's Star Wars when it comes to cultural phenomenon but Avatar is pretty close.