Stephen Lang Offers “Avatar 2” Update

[Jachyra]

Haven't heard much lately on the Avatar sequels front except that JC is going through the scripts to add his personal touch.

Stephen Lang is doing a press junket for his new movie when he was asked about the Avatar sequels:

Lang paraphrased Cameron’s “It’s sci-fi” line when he was asked about Quaritch returning for the Avatar sequels, during an interview with AICN to promote Don’t Breathe: a horror film that, like Avatar, features Lang in the role of antagonist. The actor also referred to the four Avatar sequels as “a massive saga” that he’s now three-quarters of the way through reading:

Yeah, the reading of things. We’re getting there. We’re in good shape. We’ll be starting certainly early in the new year. But you know, the thing is, as you can imagine with a film like AVATAR, it’s not like the work hasn’t been going on. The design, the production design, the various worlds, and creatures and environments, that’s all being worked on.

Cameron has admitted that part of the extended development time on the Avatar sequels’ scripts can be attributed to him wanting to make sure each screenplay reflects his “voice” as a filmmaker. However, as Lang discussed with AICN, Cameron is also known for wanting to figure out how he’s going to bring each and every creature, location, piece of technology and/or visual in the Avatar scripts to life on the big screen, before he continues with his writing. As Lang put it:

That’s what he’s done, he creates problems in which he then needs to invent a technology and a new way to do it, and I believe that’s part of the quite perverse joy for him in this is creating these seemingly insurmountable problems, and then bringing aboard people who can be helpful and say, “This is what we’ve got to do.” So it’s a massive effort, but I have every expectation because I’m pretty intimately aware of what’s going. It’s going to be an absolute joy to behold.

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