MTV article about 'Avatar' Sequels: Everything We Know So Far

[Tymian]

Here we go, after official confirmation regarding next Avatar movies we can expect a lot more inside information hitting media 'soon' ( /me looks at blizz ). But for now nice MTV summary .

Exploring Oceans and Other Planets
We got a taste of Pandora's marine world when Sam Worthington's Jake Sully plunged down a waterfall, but the plot took place almost exclusively on the ground and in the air. According to Cameron, "Avatar 2" will plunge into Pandora's oceans.

"Part of my focus in the second film is in creating a different environment — a different setting within Pandora," he said. "And I'm going to be focusing on the ocean on Pandora, which will be equally rich and diverse and crazy and imaginative, but it just won't be a rainforest."

Cameron later told MTV News that he plans to film footage underwater to capture what will become Pandora's oceans. "I think what we should do there is — because we'll have to have characters that are in and under the water — is that we should actually capture them underwater," Cameron told MTV News. "It's not the same as going diving, but I like to keep my diving, which I do for pleasure, separate from work."

While "Avatar" focused strictly on Pandora, an alien moon, "Avatar 3" will likely begin to explore other planets. "We created a broad canvas for the environment of film," Cameron has said. "That's not just on Pandora, but throughout the Alpha Centauri AB system. And we expand out across that system [in subsequent films] and incorporate more into the story — not necessarily in the second film, but more toward a third film."

Jake and Neytiri — and Maybe Grace — Return
At the end of "Avatar," Jake ends up abandoning his human body and transferring his consciousness to his Na'vi avatar, allowing him finally to be truly together with Neytiri (Zoe Saldana). The next two films will continue to tell their story.

"We'll follow Jake and Neytiri," Cameron told us.

Who else will return? Sigourney Weaver's character, scientist Grace Augustine, appeared to die toward the end of the film. But Weaver has said we shouldn't assume Grace won't pop up in some form in the sequels.

"It's always a mistake in science fiction to make these judgments on the dead," Weaver told MTV News "You didn't really see her die. What you saw was ... something happen. I think that [James Cameron] wants all of this to be a surprise, but don't buy the funeral wreath quite yet."

The Development Process So Far
In his statement, Cameron announced he will begin writing the sequels early next year. We already know he's got a hefty head start on the process. He's written hundreds of pages of notes about where the story will go.

"I have a trilogy-scaled arc of story right now, but I haven't really put any serious work into writing a script," he told us in December 2009.

And just because the scripts have not been finished does not mean preproduction cannot begin. They'll begin work on creature and environment development "as soon as Jim locks in on some of those notes," producer Jon Landau explained to us. "We don't have to wait for a script for that. And there are also certain things we designed from the last movie that didn't make it in that I'm sure will make it in on the next movie.

Source MTV

[Human No More]

Grace returning = do want

Avatar 3 not being on Pandora = very sad only

[ISV Venture Star]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Avatar 3 not being on Pandora = very sad only

I could live with that. Huge dose of Pandoran beauty in the second film, ending with a shocking event/discovery that widens the scope of things and leads to a big inter-satellite... something or other in the third film. Closes with Jake & Neytiri in the paradise we know and love.

[Tymian]

Originally Posted by ISV Venture Star

I could live with that. Huge dose of Pandoran beauty in the second film, ending with a shocking event/discovery that widens the scope of things and leads to a big inter-satellite... something or other in the third film. Closes with Jake & Neytiri in the paradise we know and love.

Well i want/hope to see more Neytiri ( even beyond Avatar 3 )

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Tymian

Well i want/hope to see more Neytiri ( even beyond Avatar 3 )

Definitely... can never have enough Neytiri...

[Woodsprite]

You know what's going to happen with Hell's Gate later on...

...when it'll all turn up looking like Jurassic Park did in "The Lost World".

[Isard]

Originally Posted by Woodsprite

You know what's going to happen with Hell's Gate later on...

...when it'll all turn up looking like Jurassic Park did in "The Lost World".

Ah... The dreaded "Vine assault"

[Stanley_9875]

Do want do want
Do want!!!

I love you Cameron!!!

[Patrice Maire]

"Attack of the Interstellar Kudzu!
Anyway... yes, looking forward to this very much. Can only imagine what will happen next! Anxiously awaiting for the official release of the novel version as well! That'll keep me going for a while! We can discuss that on this board between 2011 and 2014!

[Impressionist]

"We'll follow Jake and Neytiri," Cameron told us.

^ Now this makes me happy Moar Neytiri!

[Earthlover18]

Originally Posted by Impressionist

^ Now this makes me happy Moar Neytiri!

Same here! I don't know how he is going to top Avatar but I expect nothing less than the best there is from JC.

[Tymian]

Hell Yeah Neytiri, there is never enough of her

[SaphirJD]

Well i dont have anything against leaving pandora in a third movie, to see other planets explored would for sure be awesome.

But for now, looking forward for oceans in Part 2

And of course for more Jake and Neytiri

[EywaBlessMe]

Since Grace 'joined' with Eywa (I'm with her Jake) she could come back as a tree, or an eel...