Whether you thought Avatar was an amazing sci-fi epic, Pocahontas in space, or as "South Park" refers to it "Dances with Smurfs," there's no denying its appeal. And $700 million domestic box office translates to a sequel. Or in this case three.
Sam Worthington recently dropped the news that the sequels would begin filming in October of 2014 and now we have some additional, and surprising, news. Stephen Lang, who played Colonel Miles Quaritch and the requisite villain in the original film, will return for the sequels. This despite having died at the end of the first movie.
I thought Lang was one of the highlights of the first film and I'm glad to see that he's returning, but I wonder exactly how Cameron will pull this off. Will he return as a Na'vi, human form, an android,....Ben Affleck? Who knows.
Another piece of news are the writers of the aforementioned sequels. James Cameron has tasked three writers to script a sequel apiece. Josh Friedman will write the first sequel, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver the second, and Shane Salerno the third. Let's hope these scripts are slightly more original.
There are also plans to create a series of novels to flesh out what is proving to be a massive story. One thing you can say about Cameron, he doesn't just create movies, he creates WORLDS.
Here's hoping the upcoming sequels will be more about substance than spectacle.
Avatar 2 is set for a December 2016 release date with the third and fourth films occuring December 2017 and December 2018 respectively.
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