James Cameron Desires to Do an ‘Avatar’ Animated Anthology Film

The luxurious new Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer just dropped today—the film’s in theaters December 19—however James Cameron is already fascinated with what’s subsequent for Pandora. Not simply Avatar 4 and past; although the movies are famously on the chopping fringe of motion-capture know-how, Cameron want to dig deeper into their world utilizing a extra conventional type of animation.

Talking to Empire Magazine, Cameron revealed he’s had conversations with Disney about additional increasing the attain of tales revolving round Pandora. “I mentioned, ‘Look, I need to do an animated anthology collection that’s basically on this planet, however tales that you simply wouldn’t have anticipated from that world.’ There would possibly even be an animated function in there—it could be a function for streaming, or a theatrical function.”

He pointed to The Animatrix, the 2003 animated anthology movie set on this planet of The Matrix, as an inspiration. “[It’s a great example] for the way we are able to add texture and baroque element to the world of Avatar,” he mentioned, with “backstory on characters and tangential stuff that occurred off-camera throughout the motion pictures. Who first landed on Pandora? The primary expedition. You could possibly go wherever you need.”

As thrilling as that sounds, Cameron isn’t able to predict a launch date this early within the course of. “We haven’t completed a lot with that but. We’re nonetheless gathering our tales and that type of factor … I’ve obtained to search out the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that need to do it.”

Contemplating how standard Avatar is—and the way enticingly wealthy a canvas Pandora would offer—it doesn’t look like it’ll be too arduous for Cameron to spherical up the expertise for an animated anthology. He’ll simply have to search out the time to do it. Would you be interested by an Animatrix-style Avatar animated story?

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