Sigourney Weaver hinted on the red carpet at the Golden Globes on Sunday night that she could return for a sequel. "I really can't say anything, but it's science fiction," she said. "Anything can happen."
More clues that Dr. Grace Augustine (Sigourney Weaver) may be back for the sequel... on the red carpet last night she said: "I'm not allowed to say anything," she repeated. "But if you look at the footage, I go somewhere, right?
Source: AVATAR blog
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Gosh. I suppose this shows that I'm pretty naive about what goes on behind the scenes of mega-movies like AVATAR because it is now rather apparent that was long-ago agreed, contingent upon the box office success of AVATAR, that there would not only be a sequel but AVATAR would become a trilogy.
I loved the film, saw it three times (though once, due to the packed theatre was nauseatingly close to the screen so maybe two-and-a half times) so I'm very interested in talk of more AVATAR.
One problem for me however is that my favourite character Grace, (Sigourney Weaver) was killed. Certainly there could be a prequel that shows the very beginning of the human - Na'vi interactions including the process of Grace starting the school and since we know things went south with that-- more about how the human-aliens began effing it all up. It doesn't have to be a prequel (as it sounds like that is not what the decision-makers are moving toward). It could instead be a retelling of some of the human-Na'vi history.
They also killed "Trudy Chacon," the helicopter pilot played by Michelle Rodriguez. Though her helicopter went down in flames, with her backstory indicating she'd been on Pandora for years she could still appear. Or since Michelle's features would lend themselves very well to a Na'vi avatar, perhaps she can come back in another role entirely.
UPDATE in re: AVATAR sequel - More details leaked about the sequel - Official AVATAR blogAfter muttering about how an AVATAR franchise would make sense and hinting that there could be a trilogy of AVATAR films, James Cameron has confirmed that there will be an AVATAR sequel, fueling speculation about how it might top the original...
Things we do know: There are two planned sequels but they won't be one continuous story, they'll be self-contained. They'll also follow Jake and Neytiri. It could take place around a different moon of Polyphemus this time, although producer Jon Landau has already hinted about exploring Pandora's interior. Some bloggers guess that James Cameron, famously obsessed with water, has an amazing underwater environment mapped out for Pandora. There are also different Na'vi tribes that call the planet their home and we never really got a sense of how intra-species politics work between the different tribes. Cameron confirmed he’s mapped out what will happen in the sequels, although he hasn’t written any scripts yet.
AVATAR Sequel and Details Confirmed - Avatar Blog
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James
Cameron's science-fiction blockbuster "Avatar" takes place in 2154 on
the lush moon Pandora. To help make the set believable, Jodie Holt,
chairwoman of the department of botany and plant sciences at UC
Riverside, was approached to consult on the film's plant life, as well
as how a botanist would study such flora.
Holt, a plant physiologist, talked about her involvement in the film and the "Pandorapedia," a detailed catalog of the moon's features, including its many plants.
Read the whole story: LA Times
Sam Worthington (Jake Sully) Zoe Saldana (Neytiri)
LOS ANGELES — James Cameron's science-fiction epic "Avatar" had another stellar weekend with $68.3 million domestically, shooting past $1 billion worldwide, only the fifth movie ever to hit that mark.
No. 1 for the third-straight weekend, 20th Century Fox's "Avatar" raised its domestic total to $352.1 million after just 17 days. The film added $133 million overseas to lift its international haul to $670 million, for a worldwide gross of $1.02 billion.
"Avatar" opened two weekends earlier with $77 million, a strong start but far below dozens of other blockbusters that debuted as high as $158 million. But business for other blockbusters usually tumbles in following weekends, while "Avatar" revenues barely dropped over the busy Christmas and New Year's weekends.
"It's like a runaway freight train. It just keeps doing business," said Fox distribution executive Bert Livingston. "Here's what's happening: I think everybody has to see `Avatar' once. Even people who don't normally go to the movies, they've heard about it and are saying, `I have to see it.' Then there's those people seeing it multiple times."
"Avatar" was Cameron's first film since 1997's "Titanic," the biggest modern blockbuster with $1.8 billion worldwide.
I'm in the 'seen it multiple times' group.
The third time was by necessity as the second was in stomach-turning, barely watchable 3D and I saw little of it as it was meant to be seen. We were about 25 feet from the screen, in maybe row six of the jammed-to-the gills movie theatre. We'd only gotten to the box office twenty minutes before Avatar was to start and didn't think to ask if there were still seats together. There were not. Not more that 2, anyway.
So. We went again to see Avatar on New Year's Day and got there one hour before start time.They were sold out. We opted to stick around and wait for the next show which was in 2 hours. They probably let us in the theater about 40 minutes before the show--and booyah! we were first in line so the seats we picked were exactly were we wanted to be.
So far then I've see Avatar in 2-D with no crowds, in 3-D unable to enjoy in by sitting in the way-wrong place and finally, two nights ago in a very crowded theatre in 3-D--but sans stomach issues so able to really pay attention to it.
Everyone has something to say about Avatar. Though Sigourney Weaver may not super tops on most lists, for me both Weaver and director-writer James Cameron were compelling reasons for wanting to see the film.
I loved Sigourney Weaver in Avatar. I'm beyond thrilled that she's yet again been in a film that will long be remembered as outstanding. Besides her role as Ripley in the Alien film quadrilogy (with 'Aliens' having been directed by James Cameron) she kicked butt in Galaxy Quest--a spoof on sci-fi television. She's 60, she's lovely and compelling, and she's awesome-looking in blue!
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Yay! for Sigourney Weaver in Avatar.
She's a big part of the reason I decided to see it. Awesome actress, still classically beautiful at age 60. A second yay! for good movie roles for actresses of a certain age!
Sigourney Weaver as botanist Dr. Grace Augustine
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The first time I saw it was last week in a stand-alone theater 2 hours north of where I will see it again on New Year's Day.
AVATAR -Netiri
I very much enjoyed it as I have a number of James Cameron's films.
Cameron's 'Aliens' is second to 'Alien' only by a hair--as no one could top the baby Alien bursting through John Hurt's chest in the original. Terminator, Titanic, The Abyss are great entertainment as well. Cameron doesn't so much 'make' a film as he crafts a film.
Back to AVATAR.
Last night I saw AVATAR for the second time--this time in 3-D. Against my better judgment, I did not pipe up when plans were made to leave only 20 minutes for us to get our tickets and seats.
We sat in the sixth row--separately--and I was sick---first a bad headache then fighting off nausea for most of the 2 hours, 43 minutes.
Jake Sully (Sam Worthington)
In an attempt to at last get it right, on New Year's Day we are making the 20 minute drive to the cinema an hour before the show. This time I'm asking how many seats are left because all there was for the 8 p.m. showing we attended was really close to the screen near the edges of the aisles.
Pandora
Zoe Saldana (Neytiri) Writer-Director-Producer James Cameron, Sigourney Weaver (Grace)
AVATAR Smashes Box Office Records - Avatar Blog
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'We talk to stars Sam Worthington and Sigourney Weaver. And Director James Cameron says he hopes people see the emotional storyline behind the movie's effects and action sequences. Get a front row seat to the most anticipated fantasy flick of the year, AVATAR! Big Movie Guide takes you behind the scenes of the film, checking out the cutting edge technology, talking to the stars and hanging out at the premiere!'
Mr. Cameron has said that he started thinking about the alien universe that became Pandora and its galactic environs in “Avatar” back in the 1970s. He wrote a treatment in 1996, but the technologies he needed to turn his ideas into images didn’t exist until recently. New digital technologies gave him the necessary tools, including performance capture, which translates an actor’s physical movements into a computer-generated image (CGI). Until now, by far the most plausible character created in this manner has been slithery Gollum from Peter Jackson’s “Lord of the Rings” cycle. The exotic creatures in “Avatar,” which include an astonishment of undulating, flying, twitching and galloping organisms, don’t just crawl through the underbrush; they thunder and shriek, yip and hiss, pointy teeth gleaming.
The most important of these are the Na’vi, and while their movements can bring to mind old-fashioned stop-motion animation, their faces are a triumph of tech innovation, with tremors and twitches that make them immediately appealing and empathetic. By the time Neytiri ushers Jake into her world of wonders — a lush dreamscape filled with kaleidoscopic and bioluminescent flora and fauna, with pink jellyfishlike creatures that hang in the air and pleated orange flowers that snap shut like parasols — you are deep in the Na’vi-land. It’s a world that looks as if it had been created by someone who’s watched a lot of Jacques Cousteau television or, like Mr. Cameron, done a lot of diving. It’s also familiar because, like John Smith in “The New World,” Terrence Malick’s retelling of the Pocahontas story, Jake has discovered Eden.
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