Zoe Saldana: Avatar Sequels to Shoot for 8 to 9 Months
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- July 31, 2014
By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)
From blue skin to green skin and back, Zoe Saldana is no stranger to playing aliens. You can catch her this weekend as Gamora in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, and if you don’t want to wait that long, you can go back and revisit her playing Neytiri in James Cameron’s original Avatar.
More than that, she’s also the communications officer on the USS Enterprise in Star Trek, making her one of the few actors who is part of not one, not two, but three giant science fiction franchises. One of which is the biggest grossing films of all time — which is what Saldana recently spoke with the Daily Mirror about– or more precisely, its sequels. Here’s what she said:
James Cameron [and his team are] still working on the final drafts of the script, and then everyone in the cast will get the call. We're going to be shooting mainly in Los Angeles, and that will make things easier for me since I live there. Because we're doing the sequels back-to-back, and it's going to take at least eight or nine months or more to finish the (three) films.
For those of you just catching up, yes, we’ll be getting Avatar 2, Avatar 3, and Avatar 4. What are the sequels about? Who is Sigourney Weaver playing this time around? What advances in filming technology is James Cameron going to bring to the table? When are we going to get live action Battle Angel Alita?
Al; right, that last question is for me, but I’ve been waiting for him to make that movie for more than a decade. In fact, for a while, he was developing both Avatar and Battle Angel at the same time, and whichever was ready first, he’d make. And since Avatar is the biggest film ever, it’s obvious the sequels are a bigger priority than Battle Angel. I’ll let him off the hook on that one… for now.
We probably won’t get these burning questions answered for a while, but here’s what we do know… James Cameron co-wrote all three films simultaneously with three separate writers, in more of a TV series writers room-style, than a traditional film. Along with Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver, Sam Worthington and, curiously, Stephen Lang are primed to return. I guess sending the military home at the end of the first film was a bad idea if Lang is poised to return.
Personally, I have no idea how this story could have one sequel, never mind three of them. I liked the first film well enough, but it seemed a bit long and a bit simple, even though the visuals were stunning in 3D. Wherever Cameron goes from here, I hope it’s a bit more nuanced and complex than the first one.
Avatar 2 is set to hit theaters in December 2016 followed by Avatar 3 in December 2017, and Avatar 4 rounding off the sequel trilogy in December 2018.
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