Highly acclaimed director, James Cameron said a few days ago that writing three “Avatar” sequels is a difficult task, thus the highly-anticipated release of the first new film, “Avatar 2” will be delayed for one more year and is expected to be out in late 2017.
The director’s plan is to film all the sequels at one time and then schedule their release over consecutive years. Although, the new sequel was scheduled to be finished in late 2016, Cameron said that the writing process became “very involved” and that the initial target date was probably too ambitious.
“There’s a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don’t get when you’re making a stand-alone film”, he said in Wellington, New Zealand. The Canadian who has won three Academy Awards, underlined that the writing team’s goal that he is leading, is to have the three scripts completed this month: “We’re writing three simultaneously. And we’ve done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We’re not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that. And parallel with that, we’re doing all the design. So we’ve designed all the creatures and the environments”, he explained.
The first Avatar movie was released back in 2009, and was the highest-grossing film in history, with a box office of nearly $2.8 billion. It was also named best drama at the Golden Globes and won Academy Awards for cinematography, visual effects as well as art direction. The film, starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver was shot in New Zealand and the sequels are also planned to be shot there.
The films is produced by Lightstorm Entertainment and Twentieth Century Fox.
