James Cameron on AVATAR Sequels - "They’re gonna be bitchin’"
In a recent interview with Empire Magazine, director James Cameron discussed his upcoming Avatar sequels. He started off by hilariously describing what will happen to us when we see these movies:
“I can tell you one thing about them. They’re gonna be bitchin’. You will shit yourself with your mouth wide open.”
I thought that last part of the comment was ridiculously amazing. I hope that's a line of dialogue in one of the movies. The director also spoke about other aspects of the film, such as the frame rate, and planning the story out with his writing team. There were early rumors of Cameron shooting the movies in 60fps, but Cameron ended up going with 48fps, which is what Peter Jackson shot his Hobbit movies in.
“My thinking at the time was that 60 [FPS] might be a better segue to the video market. I’ll be plugging into a system that’s a little more mature, so it makes sense for me to do 48 frames at this point.”
As for working on the scripts, Cameron has divided two of them across a writing team that consists of Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno. He went on to explain a little bit of their process:
“I think we met for seven months and we whiteboarded out every scene in every film together, and I didn’t assign each writer which film they were going to work on until the last day. I knew if I assigned them their scripts ahead of time, they’d tune out every time we were talking about the other movie.”
Cameron then revealed that Peter Jackson and his writing team, Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens, made a significant contribution to Avatar.
“When Neytiri is holding Jake and she’s just brought him back to consciousness, the 'I see you' line was suggested by them. It might have been Peter who said that.”
In the end, I'm just excited about watching a movie that will make me shit myself with my mouth wide open!