James Cameron Wants To Prove ‘Avatar’ Wasn’t A Fluke
By Jack Giroux/Dec. 13, 2015 8:00 am EST
After the jump, read the director’s latest comments on the Avatar sequels.
Earlier this year Cameron said the writing process has been a part of the reason for the delay of Avatar 2, citing that plotting out three films is far more complicated than writing a standalone feature:
Speaking with EW, the director says the Avatar sequels scripts, which he’s developing with a team of writers, aren’t quite finished:
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. 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. And parallel with that, we’re doing all the design. So we’ve designed all the creatures and the environments.
“I’m in the process of doing another pass through all three scripts right now. Just refining. That’s in parallel with the design process. The design process is very mature at this point. We’ve been designing for about a year and a half. All the characters, settings and creatures are all pretty much [set].”
Avatar 2 opens in theaters December 25th, 2017.
