Cameron On Avatar Sequels

With the release of Avatar James Cameron moved the bar in cinematography. Fact. Cinema has experimented with new worlds, Cameron has pushed the visual capacity to create them. The complexity and depth of Pandora has assured the future of the Avatar series; even with a story that becomes the anticlimax of the entire film. Anticipation, however, remains high for new instalments and Cameron is eager to deliver.

"Avatar 2... we're still working on deals. We don't start the movie until we get the deals worked out," he said to MTV. "I'm making notes. I'm not sitting idle...But really, what i'm working on primarily is the novel."

Cameron revealed that he had always intended to create a novelization of Avatar but there was not enough time aside from production of the film to complete it. "I didn't want to do a cheesy novelization, where some hack comes in and kind of makes it up. I wanted to do something that was a legitimate novel that as inside the characters' heads and didn't have the wrong culture stuff, the wrong language stuff, all that". Passionate, that is the only word that can be conjured from Cameron's insight; that is no bad thing leading into yet another new frontier sequel.

The reasoning behind Cameron's desire to finalize the novels before moving on to the sequel is testament to his passion. "ideally that [the novel] becomes a kind of bible for any other writers that want to come along and riff off with other Avatar-based stories, which I’m not ruling out. I don’t mind opening up the Universe I just don’t want that to happen until I’ve got more meat on the bones because the film is pretty spare when it comes to a lot of the specific details about the back story, the history, the company, what’s happening on Earth, you know, Grace’s back story, Jake’s back story, all that stuff. That all needs to be filled in before other writers can come in and run with it."

So basically Cameron does not want anybody coming treading over his vision of Avatar, nor does he want anybody coming in to this world without being able to envisage the background or 'meat' that holds it together.The irony is not lost in Cameron's words, remember when a Terminator movie could be classed as the science fiction movie around? Cameron does, we do, it was before it was interfered with by outside influences. See this novel as a counter measure.

On the movies themselves, Cameron suggested that two follow up sequels to Avatar could be shot back to back, though nothing has been decided yet. Yet, on the very nature and scale that these films are produced, if there was to be an Avatar 2 and 3, it would appear logical to tackle them together.