Not many movies make $2 billion at the box office so it was only
obvious that Fox would push director James Cameron for an
Avatar sequel. According to news
reports Cameron has apparently worked out the story for three films
already.
Little is known as yet about the sequel except that it would obviously
further explore the relationship between the Na'vi and the humans that
have interrupted their peaceful existence. (We’re reminded of the Gary
Larson cartoon about two Native Americans waving goodbye to Christopher
Columbus’ ships. One turns to the other and says, “Did you detect
something ominous in the way that they said they’d be back?”)
Cameron has also recently hinted that Avatar 2 will
focus on the oceans of Pandora:
"We created a broad canvas for the environment of film. That's not just
on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out
across that system and incorporate more into the story - not necessarily
in the second film, but more toward a third film. I've already announced
this, so I might as well say it:
Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different
environment - a different setting within Pandora. And 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."
Considering Cameron’s obsession with love of all things underwater – he
filmed an underwater documentary, took a submersible to film the wreck of
the Titanic for that movie and don’t forget the 1989 underwater drama
The Abyss, then this shouldn’t come as too
much of a surprise.
Rumors that Cameron and Fox are going to use the enormous Avatar
profits to bankroll the space program to find an ocean-covered planet to
film the sequel are as yet unfounded. But it would explain why audiences
will have to wait until 2014 for the movie . . .
Avatar
2 (2014)