The few reports that we’ve heard about “Avatar 2” on the official front have painted a very interesting picture for the film, and fans are generally curious about what James Cameron could be planning for them. One thing is clear right now though – the film is not going to arrive anytime soon, and the director is obviously going to take his time in order to polish it to perfection. He seems to have some major plans in mind for the new production and he is reportedly actually lacking the proper technology to realize his ideas, which has been one of the main factors in delaying the production so far.
On the other hand, Cameron apparently wants to turn this into a trilogy for the time being, and planning out the whole thing has been taking its toll on the director, and preventing him from moving forward too quickly with “Avatar 2”. There are apparently various plot ideas that he has been juggling around, but he is yet to pick the ones that will make it into the final film, and he has to decide what he wants to do with the story exactly.
We have been getting some reports that “Avatar 2” is going to be focused on a dark, prison theme and the whole film will be a bit moodier than its predecessor, changing the whole tone to a large extent. We don’t how this could reflect on the story being told in “Avatar 2” but we definitely expect that James Cameron is planning something equally nice to balance the more negative aspects of the new story.
After all, “Avatar” had plenty of positive things to say, and it wouldn’t make sense if “Avatar 2” just dialed that back and gave the story a more negative voice. The franchise needs to evolve, true, but it also attracted its fans originally because of some very specific plot details and the general style of its storytelling, and changing those aspects now could spell disaster for the sequel. But in the end, James Cameron is a director with a lot of experience and he should know best what this franchise needs and how to move it forward.
One of the more interesting plot details about “Avatar 2” that we’ve learned recently is that Stephen Lang is going to come back to reprise his role as Miles Quaritch, despite the fact that the character was apparently killed in the original film. There will be some explanation for his survival in the new story, obviously, and from what we can tell it should be done in a way that doesn’t leave fans disappointed and feeling like they’ve been given a cop-out.
Other than that, we’ve been hearing some mixed rumors about the new film but nothing concrete for the moment – and it looks like that’s how things are going to be for some time too, as James Cameron has been taking it nice and easy with this production and he’s in no rush to get it out quickly.
The director would be smart to give this film as much time as he needs too, as it’s a very important production that holds a lot for his career, and he needs to make absolutely sure that it’s going to work out well. There are various things that Cameron can do that can swing the popularity of the franchise forward or backward, and it’s probably not very easy to predict where the situation is going to go anyway.