Before it hit theaters, Avatar, which has amassed $1.3 billion at the worldwide
box office, seemed to many in Hollywood like a crazy gamble. But not only did
director James Cameron always believe that the film would be a hit — he was even
planning a sequel during production. “I’ve had a storyline in mind from the
start — there are even scenes in Avatar that I kept in because they lead to the
sequel,” Cameron says. “It just makes sense to think of it as a two or three
film arc, in terms of the business plan. The CG plants and trees and
creatures and the musculo-skeletal rigging of the main characters — that all
takes an enormous amount of time to create. It’d be a waste not to use it
again.” Sam Worthington is already signed to play Jake Sully again, and he
e-mailed EW some plot suggestions for the sequel: “Jake should have abused
his avatar and be fat and unfit and demand Neyteri to get him a beer.” Even
actors whose characters got killed at the end of the movie are keen on a repeat
performance. “You think those two arrows in my chest are going to stop me from
coming back?” barks Stephen Lang, who plays the evil Colonel Miles Quaritch.
“Nothing’s over so long as they’ve got my DNA.”
For more on Avatar, plus what’s next for the film’s cast members, pick up the
new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands January 15th.
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