James "God" Cameron Shares Some AVATAR 2 Details

 

While AVATAR 2 is still 2 years away from it's December 2016 release, James Cameron gave some updates on what stages of pre-production the film is in.

 "We're still in the early stages. Right now we're developing the software. I'm writing the scripts. We're designing all the creatures and characters and the settings, and so on. So I'm not actually directing yet, but I'm doing all the other creative processes that lead up to that."

The sequel to 2009's record-breaking AVATAR, which went on to gross more than $2,782,275 billion dollars, will shoot consecutively with AVATAR 3 and the prequel, AVATAR 4 and Cameron went on to discuss the franchise's expanding characters and worlds:

"That's the great thing about 'Avatar. It's such a rich world, I can explore any theme or any idea that I want. Once you've got the characters that an audience loves, it's great to surprise them and make changes and turns that they don't expect. And you don't have to spend so much of the movie setting up all that stuff because the audience will remember from the previous film."

AVATAR 2 has already landed Stephen Lang (who suffered from a case of 'giant knife through the chest' in the first film) as well as Zoe Saldana and Sam Worthington. 

As for what to expect visuall, Cameron intends to once again set the bar for visual brilliance:

"We're looking at high frame rate. I'm studying that. I haven't made a final decision yet, whether the entire film will be made at a high frame rate or only parts of it. You know we'll be shooting at a native resolution of probably 4K and so there should be a lot of true 4K theaters by then as well."

"It's going very well. I think it's going to be spectacular. The first film took almost four years to make. We expect to be able to accelerate the process quite a bit, because we've improved a lot of the software and the computer graphics tools, and we've been working very closely with Weta Digital down here in New Zealand developing a whole new suite of tools to speed up the process." 

AVATAR 2 hit theaters December 2016, ending a rather busy year for blockbusters.