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‘Avatar’ sequels to be a family saga
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James Cameron says his vision for his three “Avatar” sequels is to create a family epic in the mold of “The Godfather” that will introduce viewers to new cultures and go underwater on his fictional moon Pandora.
The director announced yesterday he will be filming the sequels in New Zealand, where he shot the triple Academy Award-winning original.
Cameron, 59, said he plans to release the first sequel in 2016, seven years after the release of “Avatar,” which has become the highest-grossing film in history with a box office take of nearly US$2.8 billion.
He said a core team has been developing new software for the sequels even while he’s been gone on other projects, including 18 months planning an 11 kilometer descent to the deepest part of the ocean, which he successfully completed last year.
“It’s going to be a lot of new imagery and a lot of new environments and creatures across Pandora,” he said. “We’re blowing it out all over the place. At first I thought I was going to take it onto other worlds as well, in the same solar system, but it turned out not to be necessary. I mean the Pandora that we have imagined will be a fantasy land that is going to occupy people for decades to come, the way I see it.”
Cameron said the films will explore different Na’vi cultures as well as the cultures of other Pandora creatures.
“There’s a fair bit of underwater stuff. It’s been inaccurately said that the second film takes place underwater. That’s not true,” he said. “There are underwater scenes and surface-water scenes having to do with indigenous ocean cultures that are distributed across the three films.”
He said water is difficult to recreate on a computer, something he’s talked about with Joe Letteri, the visual effects supervisor at Weta Digital.
“I said Joe, you know, there’s a lot of water,” Cameron said. “And he basically said ‘Bring it on. We’re ready.’”
He said the first movie focused on the main character, Jake Sully.
“It was very Jake-centric. His story seen through his eyes,” Cameron said. “We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward. It’s really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora ... So think of it as a family saga like ‘The Godfather.’”
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