Avatar Sequel To Be Announced Within ‘A Few Months’
By Russ Fischer/May 13, 2010 9:41 am EST
James Cameron spoke about 3D filmmaking at a technology forum in Seoul, South Korea recently, and said that a release date for the Avatar sequel will be announced “in a few months.” He also talked briefly about how long Avatar 2 will take to make.
The AP reports on Cameron’s talk, and says that the director estimates the sequel will take about three years to make. That’s a year and half less than the active time required to make the first film, but likely takes into account the fact that much of the technological heavy lifting has already been done. Or, in Cameron’s own words from late last year:
So what’s the story? The most likely point seems to be that the sequel will dive into the oceans of Pandora. How that fits in with the story set up in the first, we don’t know. But it certainly fits in with Cameron’s overriding interests. He has recently said,
And just in case you think there’s any chance Cameron will stop championing 3D any time soon, just read the AP rundown of his talk for comments on how we can expect 3D to fully replace 2D as the standard format in under 25 years.
I’m going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won’t be a rain forest. I’m not saying we won’t see what we’ve already seen; we’ll see more of that as well.
