James Cameron has spilled the beans on his follow-up(s) to the highest grossing movie of all time. Speaking to ABC's "Nightline" programme Cameron revealed "It's on Pandora. Well, I'm really writing the second and third films together, so it completes a kinda three film story arc. And we will see the oceans of Pandora, which we haven't seen at all and that's an ecosystem that I'm dying to start designing because it's going to look spectacular."
The first film dealt with humanities mining of fictitious world Pandora, destroying a delicate eco-system as the native Na'Vi attempted to protect it. With the threat of deforestation and pollution an unfortunate reality, it would be unsurprising for the director to continue the theme. According to Cameron the sequel "narrows the spotlight instead of just nature in general or the rainforest. It focuses it a little more on ocean issues, because we have a planet that's a blue planet. From a distance, you look at it, the Earth is a lot more blue than it is, you know brown, the land mass. We're making the oceans unsurvivable for a lot of the species right now. For a lot or reasons. It's just a way to focus a little energy in that direction."
"I think it's just a continuation of the same thing. I want people to feel that same sense of excitement about that world. You know, the fictional Na'vi people and I want them to feel that excitement of discovery of a new world that they're going to see things that they haven't imagined. All that sort of the perk package of the first movie is still going to be there. And the themes will be there and be played out in a way that I think people can accept."
Avatar 2 is due for release in December 2014.
Via Nightline
