It’s been no secret that famed Terminator director James Cameron looks to make Avatar one of film’s biggest sagas ever! Now, he talks a little more about the writing process behind his next THREE Avatar sequels.
After announcing he’d be shooting three new films in a row, Cameron assembled an entire writing team with Hollywood credentials ranging from War of the Worlds to Planet of the Apes . At the recent Hero Complex Film Festival, Cameron talked a little about the sheer logistics of simultaneously writing three films at once. “We tried an experiment. We set ourselves a challenge of writing three films at the same time…we wanted to shoot them together…So we put together three teams, one for each script. The teams consist of me and another writer on each one of the three films…I didn’t tell them which one was going to be theirs individually to write until the last day. So everyone was equally invested, story wise, in all three films.” He touts.
While the process of juggling an entire team (whose job is to make sense of three branching storylines) seems like it would be a real nightmare, Cameron couldn’t be happier with the process. “…the guy that got movie three,” he states “… knows exactly what preceded and what follows out of what he’s writing at any given moment. We all consider that to be a really exciting, creative and groundbreaking experiment in screenwriting.”
The Avatar sequels are all set for consecutive releases (one year apart), starting in December of 216.