'Avatar 2' Casting, Rumors, Pics till release

[Timby]

Re: Avatar 2 what do you want to happen

Edit: Never mind. Neroon is a harlot and a deceiver.

 

[23skidoo]

Maybe the sequel will have a decent plot.

It'll have to - the first film borrowed pretty much everyone else's!

Alex

 

[startrekrcks]

sorry about that I want the story to be as outstanding and the plot to be great like the first one.

 

[Neroon]

Re: Avatar 2 what do you want to happen

Edit: Never mind. Neroon is a harlot and a deceiver.

- I've missed you, man!

 

[bigdaddy]

I will believe anything Cameron said if/when a sequel comes out.

 

[Aragorn]

So there will have to be roles for Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn, right?

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Avatar 2 is projected to hit theaters in December 2014,

If Cameron decides to film the two sequels concurrently, as he is thinking of doing, the second sequel would come out in December 2015.

October 28, 2010
http://theweek.com/article/index/207302/the-avatar-sequels-an-instant-guide

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

So there will have to be roles for Bill Paxton and Michael Biehn, right?

Yes, Michael Biehn plays Jake Sully's father, the retired Sergeant Major Sully. He's brought in by the company to talk his "terrorist" son down. Or at least that's what he's been told. In reality, he's used to lure Jake into a trap. After both Sullys manage to escape that trap, he threatens the company's CEO (played by Bill Paxton) to go public about what really happens on Pandora. As a result he's murdered on the CEO's orders... which gets Jake really, really mad.

I hope Cameron comes up with something less clichéd than that. But maybe not. It will have great special effects though.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

camera techniques

the filmmaker plans to shoot at a higher frame rate than 24 frames per second – the universal cinematic frame rate.

I want to get rid of the motion artifacting associated with 24 frame display. Because movies are way behind, they’re a century out of date.”

“48, 60, 72, we’re looking at the efficacy of the different ones and different solutions. The projectors can do it right now, the projectors can run at 144hrz but they’re still displaying 24 frames content at 144hrz.

http://screenrant.com/james-cameron-new-technology-mikee-85863/

James Cameron Inventing New Technologies for ‘Avatar 2 and 3′
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/10/29/james-cameron-inventing-technologies-avatar-2-3/

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Doug Trumbull tried to get this very idea off the ground decades ago as "Showscan" - the problem then was that exhibitors would have had to bear the cost of replacing all their projection equipment.

Because 3D is currently driving a switch-over to digital delivery in theaters across the country, this is no longer a problem. Thanks to Cameron, again.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

DCI specs for 3-D digital delivery with higher fps

Because 3D is currently driving a switch-over to digital delivery in theaters across the country, this is no longer a problem. Thanks to Cameron, again.

Stereoscopic 3D Image:
2048x1080 (2K) at 48 frame/s - 24 frame/s per eye (4096x2160 4K not supported)

at 2K & 48fps only according to the Digital Cinema System Specification"
Digital Cinema Initiatives, LLC or DCI

On July 20, 2005, DCI released Version 1.0 of its "Digital Cinema System Specification", commonly referred to as the "DCI Specification". The document describes overall system requirements and specifications for digital cinema.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Cinema_Initiatives#The_DCI_Specification

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Producer Jon Landau, who worked on both Titanic and Avatar with Cameron, has now added some context to that info about the sequels. He talks about a possible link between the second and third films, and provides updates on some other Cameron projects.

Empire Magazine talked to Landau and he commented on how the seas are going to factor into the film, whether or not the film will go off of Pandora and if Avatar 2 will end with a cliffhanger that will be resolved in Avatar 3, which is scheduled for release in December 2015.

The next [film] will kick off where the next last one ended, but, just like Avatar resolved itself and doesn’t feel like a set-up to another movie, you don’t want Avatar 2 to feel like a set up for 3.

Water will be a part of the movie, but it won’t be all of the movie. There’s been a lot of rumors that it’s an underwater movie – it’s not.

I think the next movie will stay on Pandora. That’d be my guess. Not all the answers are there yet, but I think we’re happy with Pandora.

12 November 2010
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=29468

http://www.slashfilm.com/producer-jon-landau-clears-avatar-2-rumors/

 

[jefferiestubes8]

‘Avatar 2′ In 2014? Probably Not Says Producer Jon Landau

“We’ve started already. WETA are already working and we have our core team, (animation supervisor) Richie Baneham and (digital effects supervisor) Nolan Murtha, working with us. And we’re working on underwater performance-capture.”

What do you think of this? They’re saying Avatar 2 won’t be released until 2015, with Avatar 3 following on 2016 or 2017.
‘Avatar 2′ In 2014? Probably Not Says Producer Jon Landau
http://latino-review.com/2012/04/04/avatar-2-2014-producer-jon-landau/


Via
http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=33583

It will look great when it is done. Hopefully time to work on the script too.

 

[Captain Craig]

I really don't care.

The story was MEH, told better before.
The razzle, dazzle of the 3-D effects will long be over and that was the only real draw for the film.

I don't see this recapturing or reigniting anything like the first film did. This will determine just who the core Avatar fan base really is.

 

[RoJoHen]

I believe in the sequel Pocahontas is supposed to follow John Smith back to Earth.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Re: ‘Avatar 2′ In 2014? Probably Not Says Producer Jon Landau

What do you think of this? They’re saying Avatar 2 won’t be released until 2015, with Avatar 3 following on 2016 or 2017.
‘Avatar 2′ In 2014? Probably Not Says Producer Jon Landau
http://latino-review.com/2012/04/04/avatar-2-2014-producer-jon-landau/

However long it takes. I'm really looking forward to this; the first one was brilliant.

I suspect that the folks who didn't like the story in the first one will be similarl dissatisfied with the sequel.

 

[Kemaiku]

There are quite a few good films out this year and over the next couple of years, I'll be waiting patiently, 2014 or 15. It'll be interesting to see more of Pandora, and what exotic aquatic life the planet has.

 

[RoJoHen]

My biggest concern for the story is that I just don't see where it can go. I have a feeling it will either be a rehash of the first story (Pandora still has Unobtainium; Humans still want it) or it'll be such a dramatic departure from the first story that you wonder why they didn't just pretend it was a new series altogether.

 

[Redfern]

I'm just flustered because Cameron keeps putting off the "Battle Angel Alita" project he's mentioned for well over a decade now. I wanna' see Kishiro's petite cyborg bounty hunter tearin' up the joint. On a similar front, I'm curious how Speilberg will handle Masamune Shirow's Major Motoko Kuasanagi in his adaptation of "Ghost in the Shell".

Hmm, you know, I think I have a thing for robo-babes.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[Enterprise is Great]

^^^ I'm still waiting for the Dark Angel continuation movie...

Looking forward to Avatar 2. While the story of Avatar was pretty derivitive of other movies it was so well done I looked past all the similarities to those other movies. The visuals of the foirst one are enough to get my butt in a theater seat for the sequel.