While it was first reported that James Cameron is moving forward with "Avatar 2" release date despite all the setbacks, a new update reveals that the director is actually the cause of the sequel's delay.
With a release date set on Dec. 25, 2017, Movie News Guide reported that the cause of delay is said to be due to graphics and software tools improvement that James Cameron is looking into.
In a previous interview with Coming Soon, James Cameron explained how the production is exerting all its efforts on perfecting the an ocean ecosystem to Pandora.
"We're doing 'Avatar' films now, so we're making up an ocean ecosystem for Pandora," Cameron explained. "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. The fact that we're basically overfishing, climate change... a few degrees of temperature rise are gonna basically take out the coral reefs. All those beautiful images of the coral environments we all grew up with won't exist in 50 years at the rate we're going in terms of pumping greenhouse gases into the environment. These are the things that concern me."
Furthermore, he shared details on what fans could expect in the Pandora world comes "Avatar 2" release date.
"There isn't a direct map between the deep ocean exploration that I've done and the ocean stuff that we're doing in the 'Avatar' films. However, I'm going to continue in the future making documentaries and continuing explorations stuff as well because I'm always fascinated by that. We don't have to explore the coral reefs at this point because we understand them very well. We also understand that they're dying and they're ultimately doomed if we don't change our profligate ways."
"Avatar 2" release date is set on Dec. 25, 2017 while the next two films are scheduled to follow in 2018 and 2019.
And while "Avatar 2" release date is delayed, Crossmap reported that the other two more films will not be affected after Cameron and his team are done with the software and graphics improvement.
"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."
