Earlier today, we brought you confirmation that James Cameron would shoot his three AVATAR sequels back-to-back over in New Zealand. However, the 59 year-old director has now opened up about what we can expect in Pandora next time around in regards to tone and epic scope. Cameron’s 3D groundbreaking 2009 sci-fi actioner is still the highest-grossing picture of all-time, after beating the directors own seafaring disaster TITANIC, and his much talked trio of follow-ups have had fans waiting with baited breath:
“It’s going to be a lot of new imagery and a lot of new environments and creatures across Pandora,” he said. “We’re blowing it out all over the place. At first I thought I was going to take it onto other worlds as well, in the same solar system, but it turned out not to be necessary. I mean the Pandora that we have imagined will be a fantasy land that is going to occupy people for decades to come, the way I see it.”
“There’s a fair bit of underwater stuff. It’s been inaccurately said that the second film takes place underwater. That’s not true. There are underwater scenes and surface-water scenes having to do with indigenous ocean cultures that are distributed across the three films.”
“I said Joe Letteri (Weta Digital’s visual-effects supervisor) , you know, there’s a lot of water and he basically said ‘Bring it on. We’re ready.'”
“It was very Jake-centric. His story seen through his eyes. We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward. It’s really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora. His extended family. So think of it as a family saga like ‘The Godfather.'”
Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and the original villain Stephen Lang will return for AVATAR 2, 3 and 4, with the first set to arrive Christmas 2016.
Source: The Associated Press
