Avatar 2

The science-fiction movie Avatar is already promised a huge success when it will get released. So Director James Cameron and the studios are already thinking about the future of this new movie franchise. Yeap, we may expect Avatar 2 to be greenlit quite soon.

Actually they were thinking about making a movie sequel to Avatar since the very beginning: most of the cast has indeed sign on for a trilogy! This was revealed a few days ago by Actor Sam Worthington who's got the lead in the first Avatar as Jack Sully:

"You work 18-hour days. I was on it for 14 months. Jim's still editing. We'll still be filming it up to the day it's released — probably after the movie comes out, knowing Jim! That commitment is what makes him the man he is. It's life or death. It's war. That's how he approaches movies… We're signed for a trilogy. But I think I'll be 94 by the time it finishes, to be honest. I know Jim's got some ideas in his big head."

Actor Sam Worthington

But what could possibly be the plot of Avatar 2? Well, two potential plots have shown up online:

- the story of Avatar 2 could imply Jack Sully going deeper in the jungle of the planet Pandora:

"If the public likes Avatar, it's a possibility. After all, here we are exploring the surface of the planet Pandora. The interior remains to be seen."

Producer Jon Landau

- or a whole new setting could be introduced, either in space or on a new planet:

"What would you think if I told you that should a sequel to AVATAR happen, it might not even take place on Pandora? It's all up the air as of now. But remember I'm telling you this. Pandora is not the be all and end all of the Consortium."

An anonymous insider source

I don't really care about where Avatar 2 would take place as long as Director James Cameron and his team show the same commitment to make this sequel to Avatar a real success.

And I'm confident that Avatar, from the experience they gained while making the first film, will be even more amazing! Besides I guess that Avatar 2 won't be released before 2012, so that would let time to the technology to drastically improve.

Here's an update from James Cameron, it concerns Avatar 2:

"We have some story ideas about how to branch out into other moons of Polyphemus and the Alpha Centauri A (ACA) solar system."

Director James Cameron

Update: Avatar 2 is now set for a release in December 2014.