James Cameron has officially committed himself to doing two more Avatar movies, presumably back to back. Avatar 2 is being aimed for December 2014, while Avatar 3 will hit one year later in December 2015.
Cameron is expected to start writing the scripts early next year and had this to say about the announcement:
“It is a rare and remarkable opportunity when a filmmaker gets to build a fantasy world, and watch it grow, with the resources and partnership of a global media company. Avatar was conceived as an epic work of fantasy – a world that audiences could visit, across all media platforms, and this moment marks the launch of the next phase of that world. With two new films on the drawing boards, my company and I are embarking on an epic journey with our partners at Twentieth Century Fox. Our goal is to meet and exceed the global audience’s expectations for the richness of Avatar’s visual world and the power of the storytelling. In the second and third films, which will be self contained stories that also fulfill a greater story arc, we will not back off the throttle of Avatar’s visual and emotional horsepower, and will continue to explore its themes and characters, which touched the hearts of audiences in all cultures around the world. I’m looking forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imaginations can run wild.”
I enjoyed Avatar and look forward to seeing where Cameron takes us next in his fantasy world. It’s known that Cameron had to wait for technology to be invented so he could make his film, well the nerd is doing it again.
He’s working on two brand new technological advances. First, he wants to shoot and project Avatar 2 and 3 at a higher frame rate than 24 frames per second. He also wants to close the gap to a point where he can shoot on his virtual camera with such quality that he doesn’t need visual effects to make the images photo real. I’ll let him explain:
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