Hey there guys, the guys over at one of my favourite websites, Slashfilm.com have a nice little article with some juicy details for Avatar fans! First is that James Cameron is planning on writing an Avatar prequel novel that should be with us by fall. I’m really hoping that as soon as Cameron is done with this, he goes on to his next project ‘Battle Angel Alita’ before we return to Pandora. Hopefully the Movie-Gods will here my pleas, but I supposed it’s all up to Mr Cameron now… the guys obviously writing his own movie checks now and I’m pretty sure Fox will pretty much back up whatever he decides to take on next!? Anyway check out below for prequel details.
Slashfilm:
“It would be something that would lead up to telling the story of the movie, but it would go into much more depth about all the stories that we didn’t have time to deal with — like the schoolhouse and Sigourney [Weaver's character] teaching at the schoolhouse; Jake on Earth and his backstory and how he came here; [the death of] Tommy, Jake’s brother; and Colonel Quaritch, how he ended up there and all that.”
They also go into some detail on an early script treatment and share some details that I was totally unaware of.
Slashfilm:
According to the treatment, population of Earth has tripled, and the planet is dying due to a combination os “overpopulation, over- development, nuclear terrorism, environmental warfare tactics, radiation leakage from power plants and waste dumps, toxic waste, air pollution, deforestation, pollution and overfishing of the oceans, global warming, ozone depletion, loss of biodiversity through extinction” The scriptment explains that the human race has learned to keep itself alive, but has “lost almost all contact with the natural world, which it has strangled and crushed out of existence.” The United States is covered with cities, crowded and gray, described as “a cross between THX-1138 and a Calcutta train station.” National Parks no longer exist. Jake (named “Josh” in this earlier draft) lives in a “tiny cubicle of an apartment in a vast government housing project” in a small room “reminiscent of a cell at a federal prison”. Paralyzed due to his involvement in “a stupid little war people barely remember,” Jake is described as “a hopeless guy in a hopeless world.” Sully’s brother Thomas died in a Boston subway fire, one of over 100 people asphyxiated in the not-so-unusual accident. Of course, none of this is explained in the theatrical film.
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