Following the huge success of James Cameron's sci-fi film "Avatar," a sequel is well on its way.
However, the creator and director himself revealed that the release date of "Avatar 2" is going to be delayed a year prior its scheduled release.
"There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a standalone film," Cameron announced at New Zealand Screen Advisory Board Meeting referring to the movie's delay.
Another two films are on its way and also expected to experience delay, however Crossmap believes that "Avatar 3 and 4" will still be right on track despite "Avatar 2" release date.
"We expect to be able to accelerate the process quite a bit, because we've improved a lot of the software and the computer graphics tools, and we've been working very closely with Weta Digital down here in New Zealand developing a whole new suite of tools to speed up the process," the director explained of the sequels' process.
Adding, "We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. Were' not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that and parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments."
"Avatar 2" movie release date is now scheduled on Dec. 25, 2017.
And while everything is now settled with "Avatar," original cast member Zoe Saldana revealed some interesting details about the sequel.
The 36-year-old actress reportedly told MTV that she already seen the movie's plot.
"It was wonderful," Saldana exclaimed as reported by Crossmap. "Jim took us and gave us a tour of all the reference pictures, telling us the stories. I haven't been able to read the scripts. They're still working on them."
Adding, "We kind of get choked up. Cameron gets emotional telling us about the story. I get emotional hearing about it, so I'm looking forward to it."
Furthermore, James Cameron previously said that the "Avatar 2" would delve on the story beyond Sam Worthington's Jake Sully character.
"It was very Jake-centric," Cameron said referring to the original film. "His story seen through his eyes. We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward."
And to explain the plot, Cameron compared Sully's family to that of "The Godfather."
"It's really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora, his extended family. So think of it as a family saga like 'The Godfather.'"
Adding, "We're making up an ocean ecosystem for Pandora," he said to Coming Soon. "That's gonna have less to do with the deep exploration that I've done than it has to do with my concerns about conservation of Earth's oceans."
