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

The plush new Avatar: Fire and Ash trailer just dropped today—the film’s in theaters December 19—however James Cameron is already occupied with what’s subsequent for Pandora. Not simply Avatar 4 and past; although the movies are famously on the chopping fringe of motion-capture expertise, Cameron wish 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 stated, ‘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 may 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 stated, with “backstory on characters and tangential stuff that occurred off-camera inside the motion pictures. Who first landed on Pandora? The primary expedition. You possibly can go anyplace 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 performed a lot with that but. We’re nonetheless gathering our tales and that form of factor … I’ve obtained to seek 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 appear to be it’ll be too laborious for Cameron to spherical up the expertise for an animated anthology. He’ll simply have to seek out the time to do it. Would you be serious about an Animatrix-style Avatar animated story?

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