The Final Script For James Cameron's AVATAR Franchise Made Stephen Lang Cry

James Cameron has been hard at work developing his next slate of Avatar films. There are four total sequels coming and actor Stephen Lang recently talked about the script for the final film in the franchise, sharing that it made him cry. Lang told Collider in an interview:

"When I finished the last script, I was weeping. I just thought it was so beautiful. Yeah, the final script because [writer-director James Cameron is] telling a great, great story, an original story, a beautiful, beautiful story, and I was just incredibly moved by it. I hope and I trust and believe that audiences will be, too, because one of the things that he does really, really well is he moves it from the page to the stage in a way that is very literal. You know what I mean? You really see it. What you read is what you get from him, I think, and more."

Well, Cameron managed to impress Lang with what he’s doing, and I’m sure the rest of the cast feels the same way. I’m mostly curious to see if audiences will show up to watch these films. Cameron set such a high bar with that first film, and it’s been so long since that first film was released back in 2009. I’m a big fan of Cameron’s work, so I’ll definitely be showing up to watch these films.

Lang plays Colonel Miles Quaritch in the films. In the first film he was in charge of the security detail for humanity's gas mining operation on the fictional planet of Pandora and he has no regard for the Na'vi, the native inhabitants of Pandora, whose existence is threatened by the mining.  

The Avatar sequels also star Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Joel David Moore, Dileep Rao, Stephen Lang, and Matt Gerald. New cast members include Kate Winslet, Michelle Yeoh, Vin Diesel, Jemaine Clement, and Oona Chaplin.

James Cameron’s Avatar 2 will be released in theaters on December 16th, 2022. Three more sequels will follow being released every other year until 2028.

Producer Jon Landau has talked about the upcoming sequel and what we can expect from it, teasing:

“This is the story of the Sully family and what one does to keep their family together. Jake and Neytiri have a family in this movie, they are forced to leave their home, they go out and explore the different regions of Pandora, including spending quite a bit of time on the water, around the water, in the water.”

It’s also been explained that Avatar 2 is set several years after Avatar. “At the center of each of our four movies will be the Sully family. Each sequel will play as a standalone movie. Each movie’s story will come to its own conclusion… However, when looked at as a whole, the journey across all four movies will create an even larger connected epic saga for audiences around the world.”

Landau also previously opened up about the setting for the sequels, saying:

“As we’ve moved on with the sequels to Avatar we made a very conscious decision to stage the whole four sequels on Pandora. We don’t need to go to another world if we want water, we’re going to go to the oceans of Pandora.

”It’s a continuation of the same characters, but what happen when warriors that are willing to go on suicide charges, and leap off cliffs on to the back of big orange toruks, what happens when they grow up and have their own kids? It becomes a very different story. Now the kids are the risk-takers and the change-makers. So, it’s interesting, but it makes sense to me. Everybody’s either a parent, or they had parents at the very least, and if you look at the big successful franchises now, they’re pretty much uninterested in that.”

It was also revealed that there are different clans of Na’vi all over Pandora:

“We’re going to go to totally different environments, we’re going to meet different cultures. Just like our planet is as diverse culturally as we are environmentally. We want to introduce people to different cultures. In the first movie, we only met the Omaticaya clan, and they are the clan here allowing us to come to the Valley of Mo’ara. But as we venture out we’re going to different environments and different clans.”

What do you think about these Avatar sequels? Are you excited about watching them and seeing how Cameron will continue the story of these characters?