In an interview earlier this weekend with Australia's news.com, award-winning director and producer James Cameron revealed that he is currently in pre-production for three more films he plans on adding to his Avatar series.
Proclaimed to be the box-office winner of all time, grossing approximately $2.8 billion worldwide in 2009, James Cameron's "Avatar" was one for the record-books. A shockingly realistic portrayal of a far off alien civilization on the planet Pandora, the film was the first of its kind in creating an entire existence as well as a three-dimensional experience for its movie-goers, which had people jumping out of their seats and into the screen.
Bringing in a 550% profit for 20th Century Fox, and making record-breaking sales for every party involved, it has long been questioned why writer and director James Cameron has not pursued a sequel. But even with such a creative background, bringing to life stories like the Titanic and the Aliens vs. Predator series, Cameron faces particular difficulties with the Avatar franchise.
In developing the original Avatar, Cameron and his team not only had to write a script, but also create a planet, create unique species, find a struggle and conceive an entire race of humanoid alien-people named the Na'vi. The film worked in a dual fashion, blending complex alien concepts and a dose of reality. The complexity in concept was by far its greatest strength. Giving rise to an entire language, cultural customs, and even a somewhat biologically neural network that connected all living beings on the planet Pandora, fantasy was able to run rampant within the confines of the film. But the realism of the story, the conflict and the emotional hurdles that the characters faced, as well as the familiar allusions to places and species on our planet, gave the film a tangible plausibility that appealed to the masses.
