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NEWS: Cameron's Next Films to Be Avatar 2/3, Not Battle Angel

James Cameron, the next George Lucas.

And here I thought I was the only person on Earth who hasn't seen Avatar

Sheesh. It's obvious he' s not making it, why doesn't he just come out and say so? Personally, I'm glad he hasn't made it; I don't think he can do it justice. (I hate Avatar.)

ZeetherKID77 wrote:

James Cameron, the next George Lucas.

Cameron, despite being an arrogant bastard (ask Ed Harris about filming the Abyss for a lesson in Cameron's not-so-nice nature) but he is also a damn genius.

Does he let his personal politics and philosophies interfere with that genius? Oh, yeah, you betcha. It doesn't change the fact that he's extraordinarily talented at film-making.

Part of his pysche is a need for control and working on more Avatar will be both highly profitable for him and something he can control on a level he could never achieve while adapting something.

Really, I'm only surprised that anyone would find this news surprising. We'll see a live-action Battle Angel right around the time the live-action EVA comes out.

Well if Cameron is thinking long term, making Avatar 2 & 3 is pretty much to appease FOX and therefore get them to give him whatever budget he wants to inevitably make Battle Angel. Word is that they have put a lot of serious work and testing into a Battle Angel adaptation.

Cameron's own project Avatar took him 10 years to inevitably do. He's no doubt planning on pushing the envelope some more for the net films and prefect the technology further and inevitably use it for Battle Angel. It's a long ways out, but hopefully Last Order may be over by then and considering on what insights it gives us about Alita and the world, these can be implemented into the film.

I enjoyed Avatar and don't get the backlash against it. The most anyone can say is that it's similar to past films like Dances with Wolves. So what? This on an anime forum when the medium that prides itself on robots, cat girls, moe, harem comedies, etc. etc. etc. over and over again? Wake up! Everything told has in some shape or form been done before. Get over your pretentious selves. In fact Cameron's past work inspires much sci fi anime. Other than that Avatar is a ground breaking film in effects and for science fiction filmaking and filmaking technology and the story and characters while simple and familiar are competently told and well constructed. I look forward to the sequels, and I hope that Cameron does use this opportunity to explore better concepts and stories now that he no longer has to worry about making a new property appeal to as many people in order to recoup costs. The franchise has been established well enough, so he can now take some risks on more unique storylines and more push the sci-fi concepts further...

Avatar was mostly a cartoon for God's sake. Didn't look real one bit.

I don't get how Avatar was huge.

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Avatar was mostly a cartoon for God's sake. Didn't look real one bit.

Could you hypocrissy be any more astounding? Jesus F***ing Christ.

the-antihero wrote:

I don't get how Avatar was huge.

For similar reasons to that of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen I guess...I mean, BOTH films seem to have put equal attention to their scripts...

To add insult to injury, that movie was a ripoff of Lawrence of Arabia, which had already been ripped off by The Last Samurai, so storywise, Avatar was one of the most unoriginal things I'd ever seen

- Guy is sent to help wipe out enemies.
- One thing leads to another and he spends time with the enemy.
- He studies their culture and beliefs.
- He likes them so much that he joins them against his own people.

As for the news: meh, not like I care. I'm the only person on earth who hasn't seen, or bought, Avatar.

Avatar was mostly CGI, and it was so painfully obvious it looked like the backgrounds of Toy Story 3, that's a cartoon. Cartoons aren't limited to pencil and paper drawings.