While Avatar looks to return to theaters again at the end of August, James Cameron is still being bombarded with questions about the sequel. In fact, his first concern is a much more low tech one: getting the novelization right.
“Avatar 2… we’re still working on deals. We don’t start the movie until we get the deals worked out. I’m making notes. I’m not sitting idle,” Cameron said. “But really, what I’m working on primarily is the novel. I never had a chance to get the novel done while we were making the movie, and I always intended to. I didn’t want to do a cheesy novelization, where some hack comes in and kind of makes s–t up. I wanted to do something that was a legitimate novel that was inside the characters’ heads and didn’t have the wrong culture stuff, the wrong language stuff, all that.”
One major possibility, however, for the next Avatar is to film the next two movies back to back. Given the amount of CG work involved (reducing the acting load) and Cameron’s breakneck schedule, the decision could be more economical. “The way these back-to-back productions fall apart is that you’re trying to do two live-action films back to back, and you’re working on it for a year and a half, shooting. Everyone is dead. It’s not humanly possible. This type of film, it absolutely would work, said Cameron.
Source: MTV
