James Cameron's Sequel to "AVATAR"

[AnorexicBatman]

Cameron says he has a reason to why the Na'vi have a resemblance to humans. He says that everything will be explained in the novel which I think may be released late this year.

I wish I had James Cameron's talent for making excuses.
Oh read the novel! Oh play the game! Oh watch the bloated 5 hour extended edition! Mr. Cameron, a movie is supposed to be a single standalone piece and the PLOT itself should explain everything

 

[Sentinel X]

^Not really. Avatar is a movie, not a discovery channel special of psudoscience. Knowing how the Na'vi have evolved to human looking creatures wasn't really relevant to the plot, at least not for Avatar 1. So, it would be better if it were explained through some other medium

 

[dark_b]

i think Cameron never said that its explained why they look humanoid in the book.

he already said why they are like that. because he wanted human emotions from the aliens and because they are made for humans. like every f..... memorable alien.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I think people wondering how the Na'vi will get underwater be able to explore the ocean are forgetting one thing, there are still humans on Pandora, and they are scientists, they could cook something up for Na'vi to help them breathe underwater.

 

[Ghostvirus]

Sounds about like your speed.

Your insult was lazy & not well thought out. If only you had done it in 3D. It would have been amazing!

 

[Schlosser85]

Clash of the Titans is proof enough that it takes more than (poorly done) 3-D to make a movie amazing.

Most people who like Avatar don't like it just because they're ooing and ahhhing at the effects with their mouths hanging open, just because those who didn't like it like to make it sound that way.

 

[Midnyte_Sun]

The reason why they look humanoid is already self explanatory. Pandora's jungles resemble Earth and African jungles in many ways. They obviously evolved in the jungle and then spread across their planet like humans spread on Earth.

 

[:eek:]

Not really movie news, but...

James Cameron Wants to Film Mars in 3-D
By Denise Chow
SPACE.com Staff Writer
posted: 30 April 2010
11:58 am ET

If James Cameron gets his way, Mars could be getting the Pandora treatment when NASA launches its newest rover Curiosity on an ambitious mission to the red planet next year.
The famed "Avatar" director, whose own 3-D camerawork has revolutionized the cinematic industry, has convinced NASA to mount a 3-D camera on top of Curiosity's mast for the upcoming Martian mission, scheduled to launch in 2011.
Cameron believes that including a camera with 3-D capabilities will help engage the public and generate more excitement about Curiosity's work.

"It's a very ambitious mission. It's a very exciting mission," Cameron said according to the Pasadena Star-News. "(The scientists are) going to answer a lot of really important questions about the previous and potential future habitability on Mars."
Cameron spoke in a Tuesday event at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), which is near NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena where the Curiosity rover is being built.
Cameron lobbied the space agency to include the 3-D camera on Curiosity's mission after JPL scaled back plans for such a device in 2007, as a way to compensate for the $2.3 billion mission being consistently over budget and behind schedule.
In January, Cameron met NASA chief Charles Bolden and was able to convince him and the space agency to purchase a 3-D camera for Curiosity, the director said. It would replace the mast camera (without 3-D capabilities) that has already been built and was delivered to JPL this month.
While the Curiosity team is unsure whether the new camera will be ready in time, they are eagerly anticipating the camera's potential to record Martian movies at a rate of 10 frames per second, reported the Star-News.
"You could take a movie and image clouds moving in the sky or a dust devil moving," said Joy Crisp, JPL deputy project scientist on Mars Science Laboratory, the official name for the rover project. "As you're driving, you could take a movie."
Now, it will be up to the Malin Space Science Systems, the San Diego-based company charged with building several of Curiosity's cameras, to scramble to build the 3-D camera in time.
"It's a thrill to be on even a tiny part of the mission," Cameron told the Star-News.
Cameron also spoke about the Earthly inspirations used to create the fictional world of Pandora, the moon location of his mega-hit "Avatar."
The filmmaker revealed that Pandora was created to look exotic and foreign, while still maintaining elements that audiences could identify and relate to.
"We tried to make it not completely fanciful," Cameron told the audience at the event titled "Is Pandora Possible?" "If it was too outlandish, there would be a believability gap."
To achieve this, Cameron took cues from flora, fauna and various other phenomena on Earth to create Pandora, which was conceived as a moon in the Alpha Centauri system

 

[Silver Knight]

I think people wondering how the Na'vi will get underwater be able to explore the ocean are forgetting one thing, there are still humans on Pandora, and they are scientists, they could cook something up for Na'vi to help them breathe underwater.

That would be lame.

 

[Art_of_Crime]

The reason why they look humanoid is already self explanatory. Pandora's jungles resemble Earth and African jungles in many ways. They obviously evolved in the jungle and then spread across their planet like humans spread on Earth.

Or they look similar to humans because its easier for the audience to relate to the characters.

 

[Timstuff]

OK, here's a couple ideas I had for a sequel to Avatar:

• Jake and Neytiri have a 10 year old daughter, who was born shortly after the first movie (she has four fingers and a thumb on each hand, like dear ol' dad)
• Humans return to Pandora to collect life specimines in hopes of reviving earth's eco system
• As one such life specimine, Jake and Neytiri's daughter gets kidnapped by the human scientists
• Jake and Netyri steal one of the humans' ships to go after their daughter, who is on her way back to Earth
• Although Neytiri and Jake remain in cryo sleep, their daughter is kept awake for 5 years so that the scientists on the ship can create a human avatar body for her (thus meaning she's 15 by the time they reach earth)
• Jake and Neytiri reach earth and search for their now teenage (and often human looking) daughter in the futuristic "concrete jungle," while she learns the ways of the humans, makes friends with some of the locals, and tries to get them to clean up their planet (while struggling with the temptation of becoming as complacent as them)

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

I do like the idea of the Navi on Earth. Maybe not for the second movie...but if there's a third.

 

[Timstuff]

I think it would be interesting to see Neytiri as the fish out of water. Setting a sequel on earth with the Na'Vi would turn the whole story upside down, which could make for some great character development and story.

 

[Crook]

That'd actually be a great juxtaposition from the first. Now the "natives" get placed outside their territory, in an urban jungle. Visuals alone could easily top Pandora, imo.

 

[Timstuff]

Another component for the storyline I've laid out: Jake would be portrayed as having largely given up on human beings as a species. He did, after all, decide to stop being one. He's sick of them, and returning to earth is like prying open a scab for him. Neytiri would be very confused by it all-- frightened, perhaps even a bit fascinated, but ultimately these are the same people who invaded her home 10 years ago, and she doesn't particularly like them. Their daughter, on the other hand, would actually have some fondness for the humans.

The fact that she is also technically half earthling by birth would probably play into the story as well, since she would be discovering a lost part of her heritage. Jake tried his best to shield her from his own human nature, but in a way that just made her more curious about that part of her. Having ancestry with the humans could be part of what compels her to save them.

She recognizes humans as being flawed, but she sees them as being confused and complacent rather than evil. Even though she was brought to Earth against her will, she still has a desire to save the humans from themselves, even though her parents just want to get off the planet and go home, which would lead to some conflicting interests later in the film.

 

[dark_b]

a navi on planet Earth means live action actors. you see where i am going?

 

[Timstuff]

Um... Not really.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

^

I think that Dark D means that the Na'vi avatar will be human since the action will took place on Earth, in that case scenario what will be the purpose of full 3D CGI when the actors ( avatars ) are all human ?

As far as I am concerned I am not very interested by a Earth setting, I'd rather want to explore the rest of Pandora ( like the Ocean as Cameron hinted ) or the other moon of the giant gaz planet.

 

[JakeSully]

James Cameron says 'Avatar' sequel release date will be announced in a few months

http://www.hitfix.com/articles/2010...elease-date-will-be-announced-in-a-few-months

 

[Timstuff]

^

I think that Dark D means that the Na'vi avatar will be human since the action will took place on Earth, in that case scenario what will be the purpose of full 3D CGI when the actors ( avatars ) are all human ?

As far as I am concerned I am not very interested by a Earth setting, I'd rather want to explore the rest of Pandora ( like the Ocean as Cameron hinted ) or the other moon of the giant gaz planet.

In the scenario I've sugested the only human Avatar I mentioned was the one for Jake and Neytiri's daughter. Any other Na'vi on earth would probably not have an avatar.

You'd have 10 foot tall blue cat people swinging around a giant futuristic CG city (semi-stealthily), so I don't see what would be the big drawback about setting the story on earth. Maybe this story would work better as a threequel than a sequel, though, since it would make it easier to set up Jaytiri Jr. as a character (which would be beneficial, if in the third movie she spends most of her time as a human), and develop some of Jake and Neytiri's relationship dynamic now that they're married.

Whether or not the Na'Vi can breathe Earth's air without assistance would be up for Cameron to figure out, but personally I think it would be more convinient for storytelling if they could since that means they don't have to spend the whole movie in oxygen masks. Plus, breathing non-toxic would not necessarily be harmful to a creature from an environment with toxic air. If Pandora's atmosphere contains nitrogen, oxygen, and carbon, and the oxygen is the part the Na'vi use for breathing, then it doesn't really matter if whatever else is in it isn't in Earth's air.

 

[dark_b]

when they wake up the humans have the masks on. which means that they can not breath

 

[Timstuff]

Yeah, that would seem to indicate that the Na'vi can't breathe "earth air," otherwise that hospital room probably wouldn't be simulating Pandora's atmosphere.

 

[Maximum Carnage]

I'm excited for this sequel!

 

[Avengers-Report]

Of course there will be a sequel. This movie made too much money for there not to be on. I really like the Underwater idea, that could be really neat.

 

[Timstuff]

Of course there will be a sequel. This movie made too much money for there not to be on.

Hey, Titanic almost got a sequel...

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