James Cameron has revealed that the long-awaited Avatar sequels will take on a quality not unlike The Godfather, becoming a “generational family saga”.
We have been waiting for James Cameron’s much talked about Avatar sequels for quite some time. The first movie rocked the box office way back in 2009 and Avatar 2 isn’t scheduled to hit cinemas until December 2020.
While this is still a long way off, Cameron has offered a little glimpse into what to expect from the upcoming sequels. Explaining in a recent interview (via io9) that the new films will become a family affair:
“I found myself as a father of five starting to think about what would an Avatar story be like if it was a family drama, if it was The Godfather. Obviously very different genre, very different story, but I got intrigued by that idea. So, that’s really what it is. It’s a generational family saga. And that’s very different from the first film.”
Cameron continued explaining the differences between the type of story Avatar 2 will tell compared to the first film: “It’s the same type of setting and there’s the same respect for the shock of the new, that we want to show you things that not only you haven’t seen, but that you haven’t imagined. I think that’s absolutely critical to it. But the story’s very different.
“It’s a continuation of the same characters, but what happens when warriors that are willing to go on suicide charges, and leap off cliffs on to the back of big orange toruks, what happens when they grow up and have their own kids?” Cameron said. “It becomes a very different story. Now the kids are the risk-takers and the change-makers. So, it’s interesting, but it makes sense to me.”
Regarding how Cameron thinks people will respond to these changes, the director said: “Everybody’s either a parent, or they had parents at the very least, and if you look at the big successful franchises now, they’re pretty much uninterested in that,” he said. “So this could be the seeds of utter damnation and doom for the project or it could be the thing that makes it stand apart and continue to be unique. But nobody knows until you make the movie and put it out. Anybody who thinks this stuff is easy or a foregone conclusion or we’re just printing money over here at the Avatar studio, it doesn’t work that way.”
What do you make of this proposed new direction for Avatar? Are you looking forward to seeing a blockbuster story that revolves more around family?
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Avatar 2 will open on December 18th 2020, followed by Avatar 3 on December 17th 2021, Avatar 4 on December 20th 2024 and Avatar 5 on December 19th 2025. Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Matt Gerald, Dileep Rao, Stephen Lang, Giovanni Ribisi and Sigourney Weaver, while new additions to the cast include Kate Winslet, Oona Chaplin, Cliff Curtis, Britain Dalton, Filip Geljo, Jamie Flatters, Bailey Bass, Trinity Bliss, Jack Champion, and Duane Evans Jr.
