In James Cameron’s effort to come up with a more imaginative story for the second Avatar movie, the Oscar winning filmmaker has decided to push back the new film. It now won’t be out until 2017.
Cameron told the Associated Press in New Zealand, where the sequels are being made, that the writing process has become “very involved.” So, the original December 2016 release date announced in August 2013 was too ambitious. He wants to film all three sequels at once and getting the story right before filming Avatar 2 has been harder than he thought.
“There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a stand-alone film,” he said. Still, he thinks he can have the scripts ready by the end of January.
Unlike the 2009 original, which was written by Cameron alone, the Titanic filmmaker is working with a team this time. He has been working with Rise of the Planet of the Apes duo Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, along with Savages’ Shane Salerno. Josh Friedman (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) is also working on the films.
“We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We're not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that,” Cameron explained to the AP. “And parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments."
Avatar was a major success for Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment and 20th Century Fox and is still the highest-grossing film of all time with $2.8 billion. Many members of the cast are expected to return, including Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver.
image courtesy of INFPhoto.com
There has been a critical error on your website.<\/p>
Learn more about debugging in WordPress.<\/a><\/p>","data":{"status":500},"additional_errors":[]}