Looks like James Cameron is going to be making three Avatar sequels - all at once...

http://www.showbiz411.com/2012/06/26/james-cameron-will-film-three-avatar-sequels-at-the-same-time

Um...I'm not sure how much of that to believe.

Is she going to be Obi Grace Kenobi?




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Comment below the article sums it up nicely:

"Apart from the visuals, I hated the first one for its simplistic Cameronesque moralizing. The mind boggles how completely unbearable the sequels will be."

People try to read too much into movies. Sometimes you should let the cigar be just a cigar.
Grace was "uploaded" to the network, definitely Obi Wan-like, but at least they did cover it better than Star Wars.
Shooting all at the same time is a good thing IMO. Good for a more consistent story, actors that don't noticeably age between flicks and fans are assured that the story will have an end and not just get dropped mid-stream.

Unfortunately in this case a cigar isn't a cigar and there were underlying messages in it. Even Cameron admitted it during an interview. If I watch the others it will be by borrowing the DVDs off of a friend since I don't want to spend money on watching Pocahontas in Space/Intergalactic Fern Gully parts 2-4.

I'll wait until they come out on HBO - since I already have a subscription it won't cost me extra. Like many others, I was caught up in the pre-release marketing hype of the first one and couldn't wait to see it. Turned out to be a D- story wrapped in A+ CGI. Even the Academy was duped into nominating it for Best Picture and Best Director. I'm glad The Hurt Locker won...

Here's what I would like to know. Previous Cameron films like "The Abyss", "Aliens" and "Terminator 2" were full of political themes dealing with war, corporate greed and power run amok, humans proclivity for violence, etc. but yet somehow "Avatar" got a lot more attention for its political undertones than any of those other films.

Perhaps it's just a sign of the times?

I think that in Aliens, The Abyss, etc., the controversial themes were part of the backstory and not a continual, driving theme of the movies themselves; it merely set the stage. In Avatar, it comes up quite a lot. I think it's an easy target because the targets are much clearer, and present themselves quite a lot. Plus with all of the green issues and middle-eastern hotspots being much more prominent these days than back then (especially the green thing), it's a lot more topical.

Perhaps, but even if the cigar is NOT just a cigar, it's really not hard to just pretend that it is. Makes lots of things more enjoyable!

I did the same thing when I read Faulkner's books The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying in school. You ignore all the subtle things and just read it in a straightforward manner and they're EXTREMELY unappealing, as I intended them to be. So the inverse happened there...



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I just don't see where the story goes from where they left off. Yes, the political messages in Avatar were annoying to anyone right of center, but what is the next story going to be? Obviously, the RDA or some other goverment organization or corporation will come back to reclaim the facility and the mine. Then what?

Cameron has mentioned two things so far that I recall about the furute Avatar movies.

1. At least some of it will take place under water. Boooring...

2. Arnold will be in at least one. Get to the choppa...

Jason