Is there any reason to believe that James Cameron will make a sequel to Avatar?
Jon Landau has collaborated with James Cameron in producing both Titanic and Avatar and, with a bit of luck and a following wind, will go on and collaborate with him further in the future. But on which projects, exactly? Talking to the French magazine Le Film, Landau has given some indication of which pictures Cameron is planning to tackle next: his long awaited manga adaptation Battle Angle Alita, underwater romance The Dive and even a sequel to Avatar. After the break, how Landau pitched the premise for that follow-up to this year’s most hyped movie. Of course, he didn’t say much but Landau did offer a tantalising hint of what premise the sequel might have. Here’s my translation: If the public likes Avatar, it’s a possibility. After all, here we are exploring the surface of the planet Pandora. The interior remains to be seen. Read more: James Cameron’s Producer on Battle Angel Alita, The Dive and Avatar 2 | /Film
TIME Magazine writer Rebecca Keegan recently chatted with about her upcoming book The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron. During the discussion, she revealed more about James Cameron’s plans for an upcoming sequel to Avatar. About being on the set, she said, “It was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I was shocked to go to this dingy little warehouse and see these guys making a movie entirely on computers. There were no sets, or anything. It was like a weird, post-modern play.” Why did it take Cameron so long to make the film? “After Titanic, he was going to take a few years off. He was going to make some documentaries. That period lasted longer than he thought it would. He had some movies that he was working on, that didn’t work out. There was a movie based on a comic book called Bright Angel Falling that he ended up not making. He had a Mars movie that he invested a huge amount of money into. Then two other Mars movies came out. They didn’t do very well. So it went to the
