Avatar 2: The Way of Water - In theaters December 16, 2022

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Title: Avatar 2

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Director: James Cameron

Cast: Kate Winslet, Zoe Saldana, Sam Worthington, Sigourney Weaver, Oona Chaplin, Stephen Lang, Cliff Curtis, Giovanni Ribisi, CCH Pounder, Joel David Moore, Matt Gerald, Trinity Bliss, Britain Dalton, Jamie Flatters, Jack Champion, Filip Geljo, Duane Evans Jr., Bailey Bass, Chloe Coleman, Jemaine Clement

Release: 2021-12-15

Plot: A sequel to Avatar (2009).

 

[bloodsnake007]

James Cameron Gives an Update on the Avatar Sequels!

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=115012

James Cameron recently talked to RTL (via MarketSaw) about the upcoming three sequels to Avatar, the top grossing movie of all time with $2.782 billion at the worldwide box office.

"We're still in the early stages. Right now we're developing the software. I'm writing the scripts. We're designing all the creatures and characters and the settings, and so on. So, I'm not actually directing yet, but I'm doing all the other creative processes that lead up to that," Cameron said.

He added that he thinks "it's going very well. I think it's going to be spectacular. You'll see new worlds, new habitats, new cultures. The primary conflict between the human view kind of dominating nature and the Na'vi view of being integrated into nature is the same, but it manifests itself in very different ways."

As far as the tech behind the upcoming films, they have greatly reduced how long one movie will take to make. "The first film… took almost four years to make. We expect to be able to accelerate the process quite a bit, because we've improved a lot of the software and the computer graphics tools, and we've been working very closely with Weta Digital down here in New Zealand developing a whole new suite of tools to speed up the process."

Cameron also said they are "looking at high frame rate. I'm studying that. I haven't made a final decision yet, whether the entire film will be made at high frame rate or parts of it. You know, we'll be shooting at a native resolution of probably 4K and so then there should be a lot of true 4K theaters by then as well."

So what can we expect story wise? "The thing that's great about 'Avatar,' it's such a rich world, I can explore any theme or any idea that I want. Once you've got the characters that an audience loves, it's great to surprise them and make changes and turns that they don't expect. And you don't have to spend so much time of the movie setting up all that stuff, because the audience will remember from the previous film."

You can check out the interview segment below. Avatar 2 is scheduled for a December, 2016 release, Avatar 3 for December of 2017, and Avatar 4 in 2018.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1cdpoa_suites-d-avatar-je-crois-que-ca-va-etre-spectaculaire-revele-james-cameron_news?start=10

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[bloodsnake007]

Fox, James Cameron Set Sigourney Weaver For Three ‘Avatar’ Sequels

http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/fox-james-cameron-set-sigourney-weaver-for-three-avatar-sequels/

James Cameron has set Sigourney Weaver to return in the three Avatar sequels that are scheduled to begin production later this year. Weaver joins previously announced cast returnees Sam Worthington, Zoë Saldana and Stephen Lang. She also becomes the second star after Lang to be resurrected for the trilogies after the characters they played died in Hollywood’s highest grossing film ever.

Cameron has long made movies with strong heroines, and that was epitomized when he took over Aliens, the sequel to the film made by Ridley Scott, and established Weaver as one of the great female action heroes.

“Sigourney and I have a long creative history, dating back to 1985 when we made Aliens,” Cameron said. “We’re good friends who’ve always worked well together, so it just feels right that she’s coming back for the Avatar sequels. Her character of Grace Augustine, as fans know, died in the first movie, so she’s playing a different and in many ways more challenging character in the upcoming films. We’re both looking forward to this new creative challenge, the latest chapter in our long and continuing collaboration.”

The as yet untitled Avatar sequels will be filmed back-to-back. The release of the first follow-up will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later. The films are being produced by Cameron and Jon Landau through their Lightstorm Entertainment. Weaver is repped by UTA and Alan Wertheimer.

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[bloodsnake007]

‘Avatar’ Sequel Writing Roles Finally Confirmed

http://www.slashfilm.com/avatar-sequel-writers-confirmed/

James Cameron can’t write all three Avatar sequels alone. And he especially can’t write them alone at the same time. That’s why he enlisted the help of four writers: Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno. The five of them sat in a room for five months, eight hours a day, breaking down the stories for each sequel. It wasn’t until the end of the process that Cameron finally assigned each writer (or team) a film. In that process, it seems the breakdown of who is writing which sequel was misreported in the press. In a new New York Times article, it’s been corrected. Read about the Avatar sequel writers below.

Originally, we (along with everyone else) thought Friedman was writing Avatar 2, Jaffa and Silver Avatar 3 and Salerno Avatar 4. Now it turns out only one of those is true. According to this in-depth New York Times article, here’s how it breaks down.

• Avatar 2 will be written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, along with James Cameron.
  
• Avatar 3 will be written by Josh Friedman, along with James Cameron.
  
• Avatar 4 will be written by Shane Salerno, along with James Cameron.

Also part of the creative process, writer Steven Gould (Jumper), who’ll be doing the novelizations of each film that will be “inspired, rather than were spun off from” those stories.

The scripts have yet to be turned into 20th Century Fox, but as the NY Times article reports, a huge chunk of their financial success for the rest of the decade is riding on what’s in those pages. And what’s in those scripts will eventually be on screen in December 2016, 2017, and 2018, if all goes according to plan. Cameron should start filming in the Fall or Winter of this year.

As for those writers above, Jaffa and Silver are a husband and wife team best known for doing Rise of the Planet of the Apes. Friedman was the show-runner on the Cameron inspired TV show Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (which says a lot for what Cameron thought of that series, in my opinion the best Terminator “sequel” we’ve seen by a long shot). Then there’s Salerno, who wrote the Oliver Stone film Savages and directed the documentary Salinger.

Awesome News!!! I can't fu**ing wait! :movie:

 

[Drum18]

"Avatar 2 is now expected to reach theaters in late 2017, followed by Avatar 3 in 2018 and Avatar 4 in 2019."

 

[bloodsnake007]

"Avatar 2 is now expected to reach theaters in late 2017, followed by Avatar 3 in 2018 and Avatar 4 in 2019."

@Drum18

What the F**K!?!?! I just read the news!!!!

Oh well...

 

[bloodsnake007]

Source: ScreenRant.com

James Cameron Announces Avatar Tie-in Comic Series

There’s not one, not two, but three sequels to James Cameron’s Avatar currently in pre-production and while it may take a while before the first of the followups opens in cinemas around the world, fans can follow more Avatar stories and learn more about Pandora much sooner.

Today at New York Comic-Con, James Cameron made an appearance (via video) during the Dark Horse Comics panel to announce a long-term partnership with the comics publisher. Building off a relationship that began with comics based on the Terminator moves, Dark Horse will be making Avatar comics for the next decade.



The video comes from Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment production company where they’re working away on Avatar 2, 3, and 4 and the bigger surprise surrounding the announcement is that it didn’t come sooner. It’s hard to believe but it was nearly six years ago already when the long-in-development Avatar opened in theaters to break every box office record imaginable.

“I’m excited that starting now, even before the release of the first sequel, Dark Horse Comics will be bringing you new adventures from Pandora covering the time before, during, and after the events of the original Avatar film.

For the past 27 years, Dark Horse has been associated with my films The Terminator, Aliens, and The Abyss. Now they’re working directly with me and our team at Lightstorm [Entertainment] in an unprecedented 10-year partnership that’s going to create new stories that will take you deeper into the world of Avatar.”

The official tie-in comics serve not only to flesh out the world of Pandora and the universe James Cameron will be exploring in the sequels, but will continue the story of the first film, presumably bridging the gap between the first movie and the second. Maybe it’ll help explain how Sigourney Weaver will return, and “transform” between films.

 

[bloodsnake007]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp
Avatar 2 Director James Cameron Confirms Release and Shooting Date!

Source: ComingSoon.net

“Christmas of ’17 is the target,” Cameron confirmed of the expected release of Avatar 2. “At least, that’s what we’ve announced. But I don’t consider that to be as important as the fact that when we get all three films done, we drop them a year apart. I call it a meta-narrative that runs across the three movies. Each film stands alone, but it also tells one much larger story. We have design more or less finished, which is an enormous task. It’s been about a two-year task. (We’ve finished) all the creatures and the landscapes, and the new worlds within the world of Pandora that you see. The writing is ongoing, but almost finished. Technical development is done. Stages are done. Infrastructure. So we’re really poised to start after the first of the year.”

 

[elle82]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp
Avatar 2 Director James Cameron Confirms Release and Shooting Date!

Source: ComingSoon.net

Are we getting excited!?!?!?!?! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[AlienKing]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp
Avatar 2 Director James Cameron Confirms Release and Shooting Date!

Source: ComingSoon.net

HELL YEAH!!!
2K17 is sooo far away though

 

[bloodsnake007]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp

@kaw Posted a few weeks ago the sequel was announced to be delayed indefinitely! (Due to the date change of Star Wars Episode 8) But now it seems to begin shooting in April of this year????? I hope so, getting tired of these damn delays!

Source: ComingSoon.net

Projected start dates for Avatar 2, Wolverine 3, and more!
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...rker-and-more-start-dates#ZRXAxhFi3BzyXUSu.99

The recently-delayed Avatar 2 will also begin shooting in April, just around Tax Day, with production taking place once again in New Zealand. It will be directed by James Cameron from a script by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes) with stars Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, and Stephen Lang set to return. No release date has been set for the first of three sequels.

 

[Drum18]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp

@kaw Posted a few weeks ago the sequel was announced to be delayed indefinitely! (Due to the date change of Star Wars Episode 8) But now it seems to begin shooting in April of this year????? I hope so, getting tired of these damn delays!

Source: ComingSoon.net

Projected start dates for Avatar 2, Wolverine 3, and more!
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...rker-and-more-start-dates#ZRXAxhFi3BzyXUSu.99

I saw the "report" news a few weeks back, but I'm waiting for something OFFICIAL before getting worried...

 

[AlienKing]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp

@kaw Posted a few weeks ago the sequel was announced to be delayed indefinitely! (Due to the date change of Star Wars Episode 8) But now it seems to begin shooting in April of this year????? I hope so, getting tired of these damn delays!

Source: ComingSoon.net

Projected start dates for Avatar 2, Wolverine 3, and more!
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...rker-and-more-start-dates#ZRXAxhFi3BzyXUSu.99

They sure know how to confuse everyone. May be because they are confused themselves?
I'm not gonna buy into anything unless it is official. That being said, I don't know how legit ComingSoon is.

 

[bloodsnake007]

I saw the "report" news a few weeks back, but I'm waiting for something OFFICIAL before getting worried...

They sure know how to confuse everyone. May be because they are confused themselves?
I'm not gonna buy into anything unless it is official. That being said, I don't know how legit ComingSoon is.

@Drum18 and @AlienKing You 2 are absolutely correct... I'm also gonna wait for something official!

 

[elle82]

@AlienKing @elle82 @Drum18 @PunkNinja @tridon @Asopp

@kaw Posted a few weeks ago the sequel was announced to be delayed indefinitely! (Due to the date change of Star Wars Episode 8) But now it seems to begin shooting in April of this year????? I hope so, getting tired of these damn delays!

Source: ComingSoon.net

Projected start dates for Avatar 2, Wolverine 3, and more!
Read more at http://www.comingsoon.net/movies/ne...rker-and-more-start-dates#ZRXAxhFi3BzyXUSu.99

I read this also i wish theyd get a move on we've waited long enough for a new avatar!

 

[Flloydo]

Feels like we have been waiting so long for avatar to continue.

Possibly my greatest cinema experience especially 3D IMAX

 

[George Pearce]

This is going to bomb isn't it, first movie had the perfect storm of groundbreaking special effects and the wow 3d experience but the leading man is wooden and the movie was in hindsight a middling affair.

 

[C.C. 95]

This is going to bomb isn't it, first movie had the perfect storm of groundbreaking special effects and the wow 3d experience but the leading man is wooden and the movie was in hindsight a middling affair.

This is gonna be a hard lesson to learn - that people don't care anymore 1, 2, and 3 years in a row.

 

[George Pearce]

This is gonna be a hard lesson to learn - that people don't care anymore 1, 2, and 3 years in a row.

Indeed , think Cameron's wasting his time with this franchise when he could be doing plenty of other stuff. Just don't see the appetite for it at all and if I could make a bet on them flopping I would.

 

[C.C. 95]

Indeed , think Cameron's wasting his time with this franchise when he could be doing plenty of other stuff. Just don't see the appetite for it at all and if I could make a bet on them flopping I would.

There were very specific reasons why it did the business it did. And all of those reasons were tied to the time in which it was made and the emerging 3D fascination. It was NOT because of the storyline or characters or actors.
(The storyline itself was warmed over from MANY other films).
The very things that made it a hit are no longer relevant. 3D IMAX films are everywhere. And if you ask me, Pandora was really kind of a boring place anyway. The promise of seeing it's oceans isn't that exciting.
I get why he is proceeding with a sequel. But proceeding with 3 is such an overreach of epic proportions.
These are the kind of decisions that topple studios. And in today's film market (being driven by brand names and not stars) and mega, mega tentpoles costing $300 million- it is a matter of when, not if, the first major studio falls because of something like this.

 

[kaw]

James Cameron has brought an update on the upcoming Avatar sequels, revealing that instead of the previously-reported three movies, there will now be four sequels!

The first of the Avatar sequels is slated to arrive December of 2018, with the second to follow in 2020, the third in 2022, and the final one in 2023.