James Cameron is hoping to bring the world of the Na’vi alive in animated form with a movie or a TV show. More on his plans below.
James Cameron is still hard at work on this year’s Avatar: Fire And Ash, but he’s already thinking ahead. The director recently told Empire Magazine that on top of hoping to do two more films after Fire And Ash, he’d also like to give animation a go in telling the stories of Pandora.
And he’s already spoken to Disney about it.
“I said, ‘Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that’s essentially in the world, but stories that you wouldn’t have expected from that world’,” Cameron told the magazine. Cameron cited The Animatrix as a particularly fitting example of what he’d like to do with the Na’vi. Love, Death & Robots and Secret Level have also found success with a similar format, so Cameron truly might be onto something, the clever lad.
The Avatar spin-off series, if it happens, would fill us in on some backstories and things that happened “off-camera” in the movies.
“Who first landed on Pandora? The first expedition. You could go anywhere you want,” Cameron suggested to Empire.
“There might even be an animated feature in there – it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature,” the director teased.
All that being said, it’ll probably be a while before Cameron’s animated dreams move forward. “We’re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing,” Cameron noted, “and I’ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it.”
Cameron is still working on Fire And Ash, which is due to hit cinemas 19th December. A lot is riding on the third film in the franchise as Cameron is hoping to make Avatar 4 and 5 still. The filmmaker told Empire that the cast has read most of the scripts, but only he and his late creative partner Jon Landau know the ending to the saga.
We’ll let you know of any movements in Cameron’s animated plans, but here’s the brand new first trailer for Avatar: Fire And Ash.
