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NEWS: Producer: Battle Angel Film Planned After Avatar 2

Avatar 2... god, just the sound of it makes me nauseous with thoughts of ego-stroking and budget-blowing.

Avatar is only the #1 of all time if you ignore Gone with the Wind and Star Wars' inflation-adjusted grosses.

Landau explained how screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island, Ghost in the Shell) expanded Cameron and Landau's awareness of the manga after she was brought onboard the project. Cameron and Landau were already familiar with one of the manga volumes and the anime adaptation, but Kalogridis "opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.”

GATSU wrote:

Avatar is only the #1 of all time if you ignore Gone with the Wind and Star Wars' inflation-adjusted grosses.

Yep. Last time I checked (two weeks ago maybe), Avatar was moving up in the ranks but was still like the 12th highest-grossing film ever, inflation-adjusted. It's totally silly to say that Avatar is the highest-grossing film ever by the way, it's totally discounting all the economic theories and simple reasoning, but I guess it makes an easy news to type for the journalists.

Anyway that's the thing though, it's supposed to be a trilogy; what are the odds that Cameron's going to go from directing the middle Avatar movie to a completely different project afterward?

Wah... are we really having the "inflation list VS most money list" argument here? On a anime site... They're both different list that measure different things so what's the point? Wanna throw in the "Minus IMAX tickets" or "Average per theater" or the "Only count up to max number of theater releases of the lower one" or the ever so universal "Only count up to max number of theater releases of the lower one based upon the dollar amount of the 1949 dollar within a six month period only counting every non-holiday weekend" list? Cause I believe then Porky's II would be our winner there.

Splitter wrote:

Avatar 2... god, just the sound of it makes me nauseous with thoughts of ego-stroking and budget-blowing.

That's funny, it sounds like making a living to me.

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Landau explained how screenwriter Laeta Kalogridis (Shutter Island, Ghost in the Shell) expanded Cameron and Landau's awareness of the manga after she was brought onboard the project. Cameron and Landau were already familiar with one of the manga volumes and the anime adaptation, but Kalogridis "opened us up to the other nine books that exist, and how rich that world is.”

This gives me an idea of where other Hollywood adaptations have gone wrong. Wonder if this means they'll get it right this time.

Avatar 2? Thanks for the visuals, but try to make the story good this time, okay buddy.

Also adjusted for inflation Avatar was something like the 26th highest grossing movie of all time. Even his Titanic still beats Avatar.

After I saw Avatar I lost faith in James. Beautiful film. Sucky story. Those people that have been killing themselves over it must be the cheesiest and most easily impressionable people on the planet.

You may as well be complaining about why the Saints won the Super Bowl.