Avatar 2: What We Know So Far
We’ve seen a lot of absolutely gigantic blockbusters over the last
five years, from the record-shattering performance of Joss
Whedon’s The Avengers to Michael Bay’s summer hit
Transformers: Dark of the Moon to Christopher Nolan’s Batman
finale The Dark Knight Rises, but none of them have been able to
come anywhere close to the high bar set by James Cameron’s
Avatar. Released in December 2009, the film continues to hold the
record as the highest-grossing movie of all time, pulling in $2.782
billion worldwide. We have been patiently waiting for sequels to
arrive ever since, and while the filmmaking team behind the
franchise has been taking its time, they have some absolutely
gigantic plans for the future.
Just like we’ve done for The Avengers: Age of Ultron, Batman vs.
Superman, and many other major upcoming blockbuster movies,
we have put together a special guide to help all of you keep track
of the latest developments of Avatar 2 and beyond. Who from the
cast of the first movie is coming back? Where will the new story
take us? Read on to find out!
The Director
The first Avatar was truly a passion project for James Cameron, as
the filmmaker spent years and years developing both the script and
the technological advancements that needed to be made, so you
didn’t really expect him to hand off the sequels to someone else,
did you? Cameron will be coming back for not just Avatar 2, but
for 3 and 4 as well. He has some big plans for the technology side
of things, and has talked about both filming at higher frame rates
using performance capture underwater. You can be sure that
Avatar 2 will push the boundaries of what can be accomplished in
modern filmmaking.
The Script
James Cameron was the lone-credited screenwriter on the first
Avatar movie, but for the three sequels he has brought in a full
team of collaborators who have helped him break down all three
upcoming chapters of the franchise. Josh Friedman, who penned
Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds remake and was one of the
key people behind the television series Terminator: The Sarah
Connor Chronicles, was the first one to sign on, but he was
followed by Rise of the Planet of the Apes veterans Rick Jaffa and
Amanda Silver and Armageddon's Shane Salerno, all of whom will
be working side-by-side with Cameron. No plot details have been
revealed yet, but the director has said that the sequels will
introduce "whole new worlds, habitats and cultures," which very
well could mean that we will get to meet some different kinds of
intelligent alien species).
