James Cameron Knows What to Get You for Christmas: More Avatar

[Elizabeth Grunewald]

James Cameron Knows What to Get You for Christmas: More Avatar

Sequels to 2009's Avatar can be expected in theaters around Christmas 2014 and 2015.

James Cameron, director of the multi-billion-dollar grossing Avatar, has revealed his plans for the film's inevitable sequels. The films haven't been fully scripted yet, but he tells Entertainment Weekly that he's in the process of writing them now. The films will likely be shot together, but will be released about a year apart, at Christmas 2014 and the same time in 2015.

Cameron also drops a pretty sizable hint about which characters audiences can expect to see again, telling Entertainment Weekly, "Basically, if you survived the first film, you get to be in the second film, at least in some form."

Cameron's not only giving the movie-going public Christmas presents-- he wants the world at large to benefit, too. EW reports that the director has partnered with Twentieth Century Fox (the production and distribution company behind Avatar) to donate a percentage of the sequels' "presumably-massive" gross to unspecified environmental charities. Cameron tells EW he didn't want to pump the franchise for more money "without a grander plan in place."

Source: Entertainment Weekly [http://insidemovies.ew.com/2011/01/24/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/]

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[Mezzo.]

Don't necessarily see how they could go about continuing this. The ending to the first one had quite a lot of closure to it.

 

[DEAD34345]

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[Quaxar]

More fighting alien-lolcats coming to a fandom near you!
http://www.geekologie.com/2010/08/04/avatar-tattoo.jpg

So realistically speaking the film'll be about a massive air attack and then two hours of watching a 3D documentation about mining unobtanium? Hell, I'd even watch that.

 

[1deano1]

Surprising? No. I thought there was gonna be a sequel. I mean, why not? Why not make a sequel out of the highest grossing film of 2010?

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Oh great more Avatar, oh well I won't be seeing this, as I thought it to be highly over-rated, and just boring/cliche. I want a trilogy like LOTOR, or back to the future

 

[necronmm]

Well it's still quite a ways away. Here's hoping they improve the story instead of focusing on visuals

 

[Dr. wonderful]

Damn it James, I'll gotten Avatar for the past two years.

I got you a 360 Last year, can't you be creative with your gifts D:

 

[Colonel Alzheimer's]

How are they going to release two new movies in a row? Is it going to be one of these two part things? I hope not...
Also, I know I'll end up seeing both of these. In four years. Best mark my calendar.

 

[random_bars]

Effing sequels.

 

[Smooth Operator]

Don't necessarily see how they could go about continuing this. The ending to the first one had quite a lot of closure to it.

It's pretty clear, they go back and nuke it all, in awesome CGI, string it out for 90minutes and smack some 3D on it, and there is your blockbuster.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Unless Gargamel is in the sequel, I'm giving it a pass.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

I take it in the next one Neytiri goes to London with John Rolfe in hopes of diplomatic exchange?

 

[JediMB]

I really liked Avatar, and have no problem with admitting that.

But will anyone really care about it in 2014 or 2015?

 

[BreakfastMan]

Fah, did not much like the first one, so I doubt I will find the second one to be any better.

 

[Daemascus]

That seems a long ways off...

 

[RedEyesBlackGamer]

So the U.S. military comes back with the expedition team and fire bombs the Na'vi out of existence? I'd pay to see that.

 

[Kwatsu]

Did Avatar really need a sequel? Let alone two?

Oh, right. Money. Sorry. It's pretty cool that they'll be earning for charity, but still.