More from Cameron on Avatar sequels

November 16th is less than a month away, and that means writer/producer/director, James Cameron is out to promote more hype for the upcoming Avatar: Collector’s Edition. This also makes a great opportunity to ask Cameron about his upcoming sequels to Avatar. He recently revealed (here) there’s been no official deal to make the films just yet, and it’s possible he won’t direct the films next.

Coming Soon got to ask Cameron about his plans for the films, and confirms earlier reports (here) that he intends to shoot them back-to-back and release each within a year of the other. “Our plan right now is to do two and three as a single large production and release them a year apart,” he said. As with many of Cameron’s films, Avatar pushed the restraints of technology forward, but that was only one film. For the sequels, Cameron will have to do things differently. “In order to do that, we have to refine our technical processes beyond the end of where we were finishing ‘Avatar’ one a year ago. We need to future-proof ourselves out five or six years to the end of the third film,” he said.

While Cameron has recently stated he probably won’t return to Pandora next, he does assure us that he won’t “work on a film between ['Avatar'] two and three.” However, he’s not sure when exactly he’ll get around to making these films, and that it depends on work it’ll tech on the technology. “It’s really a question of whether or not I do one between now and when we start two. We’re evaluating how much of our techwork and how much of our facility work it’s going to take. That’s not decided as of right now,” he said. He also thinks that waiting could be the best option to go with for right now. “I’d love to just start on ‘Avatar 2′ right now, but I don’t know if that’s possible or if it makes sense to wait,” Cameron said. In the meantime Cameron is still circling the idea of directing Angelina Jolie in a 3D Cleopatra movie, and is busy working on a tie-in novel to Avatar.

As of right now, work on Avatar 2 is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2014, but that could all change.

Matt Keith

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