James Cameron's Sequel to "AVATAR"

[Kane52630]

http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29468

Jon Landau Talks Avatar 2

With Avatar's extended Collector's Edition soon to hit shelves, Empire grabbed some time with producer Jon Landau, turning up with a dream-machine and a knock-out jab to penetrate his subsconcious and extract info on the sequels. In the end we just asked questions instead, including one or two on those rumours that Avatar 2 will take us to the depths of Pandora's oceans.

"Water will be a part of the movie, but it won’t be all of the movie, " Landau told us. "There’s been a lot of rumours that it’s an underwater movie – it’s not. Just like the Floating Mountains, and the Na’vi's interaction with the mountains, were a part of Avatar, it’ll be the same type of thing."

Read into that what you will, but we can probably file a Gungan-style tribe of subsea frog people under 'unlikely'. Sighs of relief there, then. So will the sequel launch Jake Sully into orbit and on to new planets? No, says Landau. "I think the next movie will stay on Pandora. That’d be my guess. Not all the answers are there yet, but I think we’re happy with Pandora."

Landau also stressed that Avatar 2 won't leave narrative theads hanging, Hallows-style. "The next [film] will kick off where the next last one ended, but, just like Avatar resolved itself and doesn’t feel like a set-up to another movie, you don’t want Avatar 2 to feel like a set up for 3."

So with Cameron and his Lightstorm partner heading back to Pandora for the next few years, where does that leave manga adaptation Battle Angel and freediving drama The Dive? "They’re further-out projects," says Landau. "Neither one has that shooting script yet and both are really worthy projects to make."

Avatar Extended Collector's Edition is out on Blu-ray and DVD on November 15.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

^I'm just really curious were the plot can go now though, Avatar pretty much ended the story that began with that movie, were can it go from here? A 3 hour movie of the Na'vi exploring Pandora just aint gonna be sufficient, dont get me wrong, Cameron is my favourite director and I have faith in the guy, but its hard to see were a story is going to come from for the sequel.

 

[Raiden]

^I'm just really curious were the plot can go now though, Avatar pretty much ended the story that began with that movie, were can it go from here? A 3 hour movie of the Na'vi exploring Pandora just aint gonna be sufficient, dont get me wrong, Cameron is my favourite director and I have faith in the guy, but its hard to see were a story is going to come from for the sequel.

Yeah, I hope Avatar won't turn into the Pirates of Carribean franchise, which had an amazing first movie, but the sequels got progressively worse. Same with Matrix trilogy. I think if Cameron decided to just have one Avatar movie, I'd be perfectly okay with that.

 

[Passdom]

Cameron has been putting together ideas for all 3 movies for years. He announced way back in 2006 that he was planning Avatar as a trilogy of stand alone movies, that put together for a cohesive whole.

If there is anybody in the world who knows sequels, its Cameron...For what its worth, Cameron has strongly hinted at in the past that the 3rd movie will take place on other planets/moons than Pandora.

 

[Figs]

Wasn't there a rumour or info about the possibility of underground dwellers? Some kind of threat to the Navi that live underground. I remember some people were saying they were similar to the flood in Halo but that could have just been fan made bull ****.

 

[Soapy]

were can it go from here?

Well, the humans went back to Earth at the end of the first movie. They're obviously not going to just shrug off the fact that the Na'vi kicked their asses and ruined the extremely lucrative operation they had going on there.

I could almost imagine seeing a bit more of Earth in the sequel. Seeing one group of people making the case of going to war, and then the other side saying "You got what you deserved." or something.

 

[I'm Old Greg]

Jake Gyllynhall is awful does he have a lisp?? i'm glad he wasn't in the flick would have taken away from the film being AVATAR having a known actor would have taken people away from wanting to see it or been distracting.

 

[Passdom]

Well, the humans went back to Earth at the end of the first movie. They're obviously not going to just shrug off the fact that the Na'vi kicked their asses and ruined the extremely lucrative operation they had going on there.

I could almost imagine seeing a bit more of Earth in the sequel. Seeing one group of people making the case of going to war, and then the other side saying "You got what you deserved." or something.

One thing I thought of, if Cameron decides to make Avatar 2 longer than 1, is he could include a parallel flashback, with a story that takes place on Earth in Jakes past, while going through a new story in the present. And of course there would be a thematic, or other connection to the current storyline.

 

[redhawk23]

I think the conflict could come from some of the other groups of Na'vi or from some other species on pandora its self.

 

[Darkness Falls]

picked up the avatar collectors edition yesterday for $21.99

looking forward to watching it a bit later

 

[WarBlade]

^I'm just really curious were the plot can go now though, Avatar pretty much ended the story that began with that movie, were can it go from here?

In many, many directions.

One potential plot element that I often think of is the return of Grace Augustine. Cameron's comment on whether she she was coming back was that it was up to Weaver's agent. Considering the subtext about our online lives, the idea of an uploaded piece of software that might be downloaded into a hardware device (Augustine's dormant Avatar) play in really well with that. Think of the spiritual upset among the Na'vi.

There would need to be a catalyst for something that epic though. A catastrophic event...

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Well, the humans went back to Earth at the end of the first movie. They're obviously not going to just shrug off the fact that the Na'vi kicked their asses and ruined the extremely lucrative operation they had going on there.

I could almost imagine seeing a bit more of Earth in the sequel. Seeing one group of people making the case of going to war, and then the other side saying "You got what you deserved." or something.

The humans coming back would be redundant though, and I think Cameron knows this, it would just be more of the same and I doubt we'll see humans in this series again. This is just a hunch of course.

 

[Soapy]

The humans coming back would be redundant though, and I think Cameron knows this, it would just be more of the same and I doubt we'll see humans in this series again. This is just a hunch of course.

I agree. But as I said, do you really think the humans won't return to get some revenge at some point?

 

[Marx]

I'm very curious to see where the story will go.

 

[Ipodman]

A even gigantic battle with more dragon things and more flying things

 

[Marx]

AVATAR itself is a great stand alone movie. A sequel has alot to live up to.

 

[Ipodman]

They could do another planet with a different kind of tribe...

 

[Marx]

That's true, but they would have to make sure it didn't come off as nothing more than a rehash of the first one.

 

[Passdom]

They could do another planet with a different kind of tribe...

So far it seems like Avatar 2 will still be focused on Pandora, and it won't be until Avatar 3 that the story moves on to other parts of Alpha Centauri.

The thing to keep in mind is that Cameron says all 3 movies will present stand alone stories. But when viewed all together, all 3 will cover an overarching theme/plot. This is what Cameron said in 2006, and its what he said in 2010, so I think its clear that Cameron has been putting this whole thing together for a while now.

 

[Ipodman]

Isnt that what a trilogy is supposed to be... -.-

 

[Passdom]

Isnt that what a trilogy is supposed to be... -.-

These days, studios just bull**** out a trilogy making just one extra long movie and splitting into 2 (Matrix, PoTC) because the first movie was successful. Or they just churn out the movies until they get to 3, without rhyme or reason (Transformers)

At least Cameron has the luxury of having announced that he wants to do a trilogy way before Avatar made a single cent.

I mean really, I think LOTR might be the only proper trilogy of the past decade.

 

[Spider-Who?]

I would add Spider-Man to that list.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I agree. But as I said, do you really think the humans won't return to get some revenge at some point?

I hope they dont personally, it would be boring.

 

[AgentRed]

The humans coming back would be redundant though, and I think Cameron knows this, it would just be more of the same and I doubt we'll see humans in this series again. This is just a hunch of course.

Would't it be a CG only movie without humans though ?
Kinda leaves a bad taste in my mouth

 

[Passdom]

BY 2014, it could be fully CG and still look 100% real