Can't blame a director for having vision I guess, and James Cameron certainly has that in spades.
According to "MTV" and "MovieZine," the Academy Award winning director is planning not one, not two, but three followup films to the 2009 smash hit Avatar. The plan is apparently for Cameron to shoot the next two films back to back, with both focusing this time on Pandora's oceans*. (And here we go with the environment stuff again!**)
Cameron apparently is still refining the scripts and states that the reason shooting has still not begun is because "we don't want it done the same prototypical way as the first one, we want it to be a much more smoother workflow just for creativity reasons." I hope by non "prototypical" he means not "Pocahontas in Space" like the first one was.***
The popular director goes on to say that he has plans for a prequel should the second and third films prove successful. Although he hasn't written anything yet, the proposed fourth film would focus on the original visits to Pandora and begin about 35 years before the first film. Cameron is quick to point out that he isn't trying to imitate Star Wars. (A huge action space saga in three parts then another that explores the origins in <likely> three parts? How could anyone ever misconstrue that as Star Wars?)
Cameron plans to focus on the Avatar sequels over the next four or five years and while the plan is to have the first of the sequels out by Christmas 2014 I seriously doubt that is feasible at this point.
*Cameron's 1989 film "The Abyss" also about oceans is a severely underrated film.
**I have to respect Cameron's passion for the environment and that the environmental message was very much out in the open unlike say "Happy Feet."
***I know this article is coming off as if I think the first "Avatar" was a giant pile of crap but that's actually not how I feel. It's a good movie but not that original.
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