James Cameron recently revealed new details about what fans can expect from his Avatar sequels, while also explaining how much of the films are finished.
Avatar fans still have another two years to wait for the first Avatar sequel from James Cameron, but the director says he’s on track for the December 2021 release date. The director, his producer Jon Landau and several members of the cast from the original Avatar film all recently remembered their time working on the film to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the imaginative sci-fi adventure.
In the anniversary piece for Variety, James Cameron and Jon Landau revealed more about the Avatar sequel, explaining that they’ve created a huge water tank to film the cast in – which fans can assume means the next Avatar film will delve into Pandora’s oceans. But James Cameron also mentioned that they’ve captured the performances for Avatar 2 and 3, as well as the first part of the fourth film. Take a look at what James Cameron had to say about his Avatar sequels below.
Landau: “We are going underwater, we’re on the water, we created a 900,000 gallon water tank where we could capture in, on and above the water. We trained our cast in breath holding and we’re excited to let people experience that.”
Cameron: “From 2013 until now we’ve mostly designed the whole world across four new movies. We’ve written, finished scripts for all four of those films. We’ve cast them, and we’ve [performance] captured movie 2, movie 3, and the first part of movie 4. We’re mostly done with the live action. I’ve got a couple months in New Zealand in spring, so we’re kind of on track with what we set out to do.
People don’t really understand the scope and complexity of the process. It’s like making two and a half big animated films. A typical big animated film takes about four years, so, if you do the math on that, we’re kind of right on schedule for December 2021.”
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James Cameron is set to release four Avatar sequels every other year on the pre-Christmas weekend starting in 2021. The Avatar sequels star Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, CCH Pounder, Cliff Curtis, Kate Winslet, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi, and David Thewlis.
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Source: Variety