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Avatar 2: heading for pre-production already?

By Simon Brew
16:36 Feb 4, 2010 | 16 Comments
Tags: Avatar | 2 | pre-production | scifi | movie | news
Avatar 2: heading for pre-production already?

Is James Cameron starting work on his Avatar sequel sooner than we might have thought?

We're fairly confident that the powers that be at the likes of 20th Century Fox are keen to get a sequel to Avatar motoring sooner rather than later, and given that James Cameron has already indicated his wish to do a follow-up or two to the world's biggest grossing film of all time, Fox will, no doubt, be equally eager to grease the wheels.

And yet it seems they might not have to. Slashfilm is reporting that pre-production work may already be in its extreme infancy on Avatar 2, The site, through its usually reliable sources, has learned that recruitment has begun for the film, and as Slashfilm says, "According to the source, some behind the scenes technical crew have signed on for three to five year contracts, just in case it runs long."

Cameron himself apparently doesn't have his story quite worked out yet, and the script for Avatar 2, of course, needs to be written. And perhaps, if the story above is true, which we - and this is easy for us to say - suspect it might be, it doesn't necessarily mean things are moving that much quicker. While Avatar 2 is unlikely to take the decade and a half that the first film required to bring it to the screen, it's still far from a bang-em-out-once-a-year Saw sequel. As such, it wouldn't be implausible that pre-production work could begin here without a screenplay in place to work around.

When can we expect Avatar 2? Good question. 2013 or 2014 would be our guess, assuming James Cameron chooses to push ahead with it as his next project. That's far from guaranteed, though...

 
 
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16 Comments
tny
Feb 4, 2010 8:57 PM
Now that they have set the stage in the first one, they should bring a deeper story in the second.
Fingers crossed.
battlefield_gir
Feb 4, 2010 9:24 PM
RDA called they said they want their unobtanium back.
Periander
Feb 4, 2010 9:31 PM
What about Titanic 2?
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LordBug
Feb 5, 2010 2:28 AM
Noooo, I want him to get to Battle Angel Alita sooner!
bozo01
Feb 5, 2010 7:09 AM
Periander how can they do a Titannic sequal? As far as I know the Titannic only sunk once, though who knows what the government is hiding from us...
bozo01
Feb 5, 2010 7:11 AM
sudiptapl, what's a saree?
Periander
Feb 5, 2010 7:39 AM
Bozo01, your sarcasm detector is broken.
cyb3rspy
Feb 5, 2010 10:32 AM
So in 2020 will have the third installment and it will be in Holographic form.... Obi-one
Argotha
Feb 5, 2010 12:14 PM
I stil havnt seen 1..
bozo01
Feb 5, 2010 12:19 PM
Periander, what would the world be like without people like me?
qwakqwak
Feb 5, 2010 12:53 PM
too serious
Hawtoldman
Feb 7, 2010 5:34 AM
Periander your troll detected is broken.
OzTeK
Feb 10, 2010 4:48 PM
Argotha, you should do yourself a favour and go see it.
deonast
Feb 10, 2010 5:48 PM
I just saw Avatar today hmm, liked the style not so sure about the gun-ho evil soldiers.
So I'm figuring the sequel they won't go the easy route and Ariel bombard the planet to remove opposition. Perhaps the indigenous inhabitants can construct giant bows and arrows to take out ships in orbit.
In case sarcasm is not detected, I'm not sure a second film would work in the same setting.
deonast
Feb 10, 2010 5:52 PM
Perhaps the second film will take so long to get to market it will be known as unobtainium :)
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