Posted on 01/21/2015 7:09:12 AM PST by dennisw
James Cameron's 'Avatar' sequels have been delayed a year, with the first now arriving in 2017
James Cameron's return trip to Pandora is taking a bit longer than originally planned. The release for the director's three "Avatar" sequels has been pushed back a year, with the first to arrive in late 2017, Cameron told the Associated Press on Wednesday.
Cameron is in pre-production on the sci-fi films, which he intends to shoot simultaneously in New Zealand and then release over consecutive years. Although the first sequel was to hit theaters in time for Christmas 2016, Cameron said that target was probably too ambitious given the intricacy of prepping three films at once.
"There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a standalone film," he told the AP. Twentieth Century Fox, the studio behind the "Avatar" films, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about Cameron's remarks. cComments
Although the delay might disappoint "Avatar" fans, the news isn't shocking given the scale of the project and Cameron's reputation as a perfectionist. His last two narrative films, "Avatar" and "Titanic," both saw their release dates pushed back and ended up faring pretty well. (They're the two highest-grossing movies of all time, and each was nominated for the best-picture Oscar, with "Titanic" winning).
Pushing back the first "Avatar" sequel does, however, leave Fox with a notable hole to fill during the popular end-of-the-year moviegoing season.
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Okay, I have no idea what point you are trying to make. Surely it MUST be my fault. So I will break down everything......
1. Avatar was and will always be just a movie
a. It is made up fiction
b. It can only carry as much meaning as I gave it.
2. Yes it played on the greedy Western culture of take, take and rape.
a. This is liberal propaganda, which I detest.
b. Therefore I treated as meaningless fiction because I gave it no value
3. I put Jesus before everyone and everything
a. I would not go and watch a gay Jesus movie.
b. Not a thousand gay Jesus movies could ever take away from Jesus
c. Neither did Avatar take anything away in my eyes
1. It was make believe
2. My beliefs are not founded on make believe
4. I can see why some would take offense
a. I chose not to give anyone that much power.
b. Any message they were pushing was wasted on me.
c. I enjoyed the story for what it was, a story.
5. I am free to decide who I give my money to.
a. Sometimes I have paid for one movie and watched another.
b. This can greatly add to the enjoyment
6. I can separate fantasy from reality.
a. I am free to do so
b. This is America and no movie is going to quell my love for her.
could it be (rumored) the copyright lawsuit over the avatar story?
could it be that avatarland will not be ready in the Disney animal kingdom park?
(it is still just dances with smurfs. )
I think they’re going to find the world has moved on. The intervening years have allowed the world to realize it’s just not that good a movie.
“Okay, I have no idea what point you are trying to make. “
So you do not recognize anything YOU posted?
I linked you to it.
Fine, but to me it was not interesting or amusing, Avatar was just boring drivel. I saw separate 15 minute snatches and some of the end. ZZZZzzzzzzzz
Maybe a good movie to take your grade school kiddies. YMMV
See their post 32.
They were somewhat offended that someone did not like this greatest of movies.
LOL.
Where’s Gargamel?
that smurfatar has a serious case of the munchies after visiting the planet “Colorado”
It may have eaten Gargamel, and is now on to eating the others.
Avatar makes sense if you are stoned. It becomes “awesome”
Kinda like “Xanadu”?
With Olivia Newton John and her smurfette dancers
“I’ma gonna skate so hard I enter that painting!”
If that wasn’t stoner logic in movie form...
This is so childish. You accuse, I simply ask questions and and are then blamed for calling you something WHICH I DID NOT!!!
Fact!!! Liberals always make something out of nothing
This is finished
” Liberals always make something out of nothing”
Like you have been doing since post 32?
“ calling you something WHICH I DID NOT!!!”
Uh, yes you did, and I quoted you directly and gave links.
Sorry little feller, but your words are right there in black and white.
If you don’t like that it is hardly my problem.
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