For some of us, one AVATAR movie was too many. However, different strokes for different folks, so for those that do like those big ol’ blue guys there’s going to be a pair of sequels shot back-to-back and the fourth installment will be a prequel. Speaking to MTV Cameron said:
I haven’t really put pen to paper on it, but basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what went wrong with the humans and the Na’vi and what that was like to be an explorer and living in that world. Because when we drop in, even in the first film in AVATAR 1 as it will be known in the future, we’re dropping into a process that’s 35 years in to a whole colonization.
That will complete an arc and if that leads into more, we’ll start, not imitating STAR WARS but it’s a logical thing to do because we’ll have completed the thematic arc by the end of three. The only thing left to do is go back to see what it was like on those first expeditions and create some new characters that then become legacy characters in later films. It’s a plan.
This will hopefully be exciting news to the fans. Even more exciting than that is the talk of Cameron’s adaptation of BATTLE ANGEL. I’ve heard talk of this since the time TITANIC came out. This was discussed as Cameron’s project after that phenomenon and yet it never materialised. It will be an adaptation of a manga written by Yukito Kishiro. Cameron’s producer Jon Landau had this to say:
I am confident you will see it. It’s one of my favorite stories, I think it is an incredible story, a journey of self-discovery of a young woman. It is a movie that begs the question: What does it mean to be human? Are you human if you have a heart, are you human if you have a mind, are you human if you have a soul? And I look forward to bringing that film to audiences.
Can’t wait for that, but it doesn’t look as though we’ll get it before 2017, which just makes me sad.
Source: First Showing & MTV
