James Cameron Tells More About the Upcoming Avatar Sequels !

Vanity Fair has posted a great interview of James Cameron in which the filmmaker also dives into plans for continuing the Avatar and Terminator franchises, and about that time he almost got into a fight with Harvey Weinstein at the Oscars.

About the delays of the new Avatar movies in getting started, Cameron say:

"I wouldn’t call them delays. It was highly optimistic that we could start quickly until scripts are written. If there’s no scripts, there’s nothing, right? The scripts took four years. You can call that a delay, but it’s not really a delay because from the time we pushed the button to really go make the movies [until now,] we’re clicking along perfectly. We’re doing very well because of all the time that we had to develop the system and the pipeline and all that. We weren’t wasting time, we were putting it into tech development and design. So when all the scripts were approved, everything was designed. Every character, every creature, every setting. In a funny way it was to the benefit of the film because the design team had more time to work. . . . Most of the actors, the key principals, have all read all four scripts, so they know exactly what their character arcs are, they know where they’re going, they know how to modulate their arc now across the first two films. We all know where we’re supposed to be dramatically in the saga, and that’s great. Let’s face it, if Avatar 2 and 3 don’t make enough money, there’s not going to be a 4 and 5. They’re fully encapsulated stories in and of themselves. It builds across the five films to a greater kind of meta narrative, but they’re fully formed films in their own right, unlike, say, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, where you really just had to sort of go, “Oh, shit, all right, well I guess I better come back next year.” Even though that all worked and everybody did.



And to the question "Will the Avatar sequels deal with some of the similar themes you addressed in the first film, in particular, the environment?", Cameron answer: "It will be a natural extension of all the themes, and the characters, and the spiritual undercurrents. Basically, if you loved the first movie, you’re gonna love these movies, and if you hated it, you’re probably gonna hate these. If you loved it at the time, and you said later you hated it, you’re probably gonna love these."

Don't miss the full Vanity Fair interview HERE as Cameron has more to say about the new Terminator movies coming, the HDR re-release of Titanic next month and even about the sale of Fox Movies to Disney, if it happen!