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Sigourney Weaver Confirmed For All Three Avatar Sequels

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sigourney-weaver-avatarEver since James Cameron started talking about the sequels for Avatar, people have been wondering whether Sigourney Weaver would return. Due to the end of the first film, the initial presumption was that she wouldn’t, but then both Cameron and Weaver started suggesting she might be back after all.

Now that’s been confirmed, with the director himself saying Sigourney will return for all three Avatar sequels.

THR reports Cameron as saying, “Sigourney and I have a long creative history, dating back to 1985 when we made Alien. We’re good friends who’ve always worked well together, so it just feels right that she’s coming back for the Avatar sequels. Her character of Grace Augustine, as fans know, died in the first movie, so she’s playing a different and in many ways more challenging character in the upcoming films. We’re both looking forward to this new creative challenge, the latest chapter in our long and continuing collaboration.”

Although that suggests she will be playing a completely new character, due to the fact her death in the first film was almost a transition, it’s likely that however she returned it will be strongly linked to her role in the first movie.

The three films are due to be shot back-to-back, with production kicking off this year, with the first of the sequels due out in December 2016. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Stephen Lang are also expected to return.

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Sam Worthington & Zoe Saldana Both Back For Three Avatar Sequels

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avatar-posterWhile Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana signed up for more than one Avatar movie when they first agreed to appear in the record-grossing movie, it’s believed the time it’s taken to get a follow-up ready has resulted in their deals lapsing and they weren’t contracted for the three more films that James Cameron now has planned anyway.

That said, it’s still not too surprising that Worthington and Saldana have finalised deals to appear in all three Avatar sequels, which will be shot back-to-back with Avatar 2 arriving in December of 2016, followed by Avatar 3 in 2017 and Avatar 4 in 2018.

The only actor we’ve officially known would be back before is Stephen Lang, who played the villain Marine Colonel Quaritch. As his character died at the end of the first movie, its not known how he’ll be resurrected.

Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver are penning the third installment, while Shane Salerno is tackling the fourth film, all working from the overall story arc that James Cameron came up with. While it’s known the films will return to Pandora, no story details have officially been revealed. However it’s been said the film will explore far more of Pandora and it’s believed Jake Sully and Neytiri will have had kids.

James Cameron commented,”Jake Sully is a rare combination of passion, strength, street smarts and soul, which requires a lot from an actor. Sam brought to the role a combination of sensitivity, vulnerability and strength. Zoe captured every aspect of the character I envisioned, bringing to Neytiri a mix of delicacy, fierceness and incredible physicality. I am beyond pleased they’ll be returning with us to Pandora.” (Source: THR)

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A Third Avatar Sequel Is Announced With New Films Coming 2016, 2017 and 2018

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Avatar-posterJust yesterday we reported that James Cameron has hired Josh Friedman to help with the script for Avatar 2. Now we know why he’s keen to get a hand, as while we knew he was working on Avatar 2 & 3, Variety reports that it was revealed today that Avatar 4 is also being planned.

It’s not just Friedman who’s been hired to help with the screenplay though, as Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes), and Shane Salerno (Savages) have also been signed to collaborate with Cameron on the screenplays for Avatar 2, 3, 4.

While a 2015 release for Avatar 2 had been bandied about, for a long time that’s seemed optimistic. Now it’d been revealed that part 2 will hit cinemas December 2016, with the other two coming December 2017 and 2018.

Filming on the live-action and motion-capture parts of the film will start early next year, with all the movies being shot at once (so that’s a hell of a lot of screenplay to cover, explaining why so many writers are needed).

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James Cameron Says Battle Angel Is Still Coming After Avatar 3

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james-cameronLong before we’d ever heard of Avatar, James Cameron was developing Battle Angel. Indeed, until he decided to go off to Pandora, for a long time it was though it was going to his next movie. His plan to make Battle Angel was then pushed even further back when he committed to Avatar 2 & 3. Indeed many wondered if Cameron had so much on his plate that he’d dropped Battle Angel altogether.

However now he’s promised that it is still in the pipeline, but don’t expect it for a few years yet. TheFilmStage reports that at Mexico City’s tech-fest TagDF, Cameron revealed that the plan is still to make the film after Avatar 3.

At the moment it seems that he’s planning to start heavy development on the movie in 2017, which is likely to be while he’s still busy finishing off the third Avatar movie.

Battle Angel is a Manga adaptation about a damaged female cyborg who is revived but has no memories. Once rebuilt, she discovers she has instinctive knowledge of martial arts and sets out to discover more about her past, which takes her into a world of brutal sports and organised crime.

However with the way Cameron works, if development restarts in 2017 it’s unlikely we’ll get the movie before 2020. That said, with the years he’s been mulling over the project, he may be able to move a little quicker than he normally does (he’s previously done test reels for the film, so there’s plenty of work already done).

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James Cameron Offers Avatar Sequels Update

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james-cameronAs soon as Avatar became a world conquering phenomenon, Fox locked James Cameron into directing two sequels, getting him to put other projects aside so he could concentrate on returning to Pandora. However the director has been taking his time getting the movies together.

Initially Fox had hoped to get the sequels in cinemas in 2014 and 2015, but Cameron has now revealed he’s still writing the films, which means we’re unlikely to get Avatar 2 until 2015 at the very earliest.

He told Play Goes Strong, “I’m working on Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. I was talking the other day with Peter Jackson and said, ‘You had it easy dude. You had the books when you did the second and third ‘The Lord of the Rings.’ I have to create my own books in my head and extract a script from it. I’m deep into it and I’m living in Pandora right now. There is that start up torque where you feel it’s coming to you. Then you build up momentum. That’s when it gets fun. The characters talk and it’s writing itself. I’m almost there right now. It’s building fast.”

Cameron also talked about the pressure he feels under, “Pressure, no. It’s a little daunting because sequels are always tricky. You have to be surprising and stay ahead of audience anticipation. At the same time, you have to massage their feet with things that they know and love about the first film. I’ve walked that line in the past, so I’m not too worried about it. At the same time, I definitely have to deliver the goods…As for a release date that will be determined by when I get the script out. No pressure!”

Previous rumours had suggested Cameron was going to finish the scripts by this month, but that seems to be off the cards now.

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James Cameron To Finally Shoot Avatar 2 & 3 Late 2013

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James Cameron was a surprise guest at The Hobbit World Premiere in New Zealand (although perhaps not too much of a surprise, as he advised Peter Jackson on the use of 3D). He may have been there for Middle Earth but what people really wanted to know about is Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. While he was at the premiere he revealed that he hopes to finish the screenplays by February and start production by the end of 2013.

“I want to get these scripts nailed down, I don’t want to be writing the movie in post production. We kind of did that on the first picture, I ended up cutting out a lot of scenes and so on and I don’t want to do that again.”

Last April, Cameron’s producing partner Jon Landau said that Avatar 2 might not make its proposed December 2014 release date. If shooting doesn’t begin until the late 2013, it seems almost certain we won’t get Avatar 2 until 2015 at the earliest, considering how much post-production work the movies require.

Cameron also believes that Peter Jackson’s use of the 48 frames per second frame rate will lead the way for his Pandora-set sequels, “If there is acceptance of 48, then that will pave the way for Avatar (sequels) to take advantage of it. We charged out ahead on 3D with Avatar, now Peter’s doing it with The Hobbit. It takes that kind of bold move to make change.” (Source: The West Australian)

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