In Sept., James Cameron revealed that he had spent an entire year writing. “Avatar”It was the sequel that got tossed in the trash. What was the sequel? The filmmaker finally gave details. Total Film magazineAbout the Cancelled “Avatar”Film, including its official title. “Avatar: The Higher Ground.”The script that was torn up was over 100 pages.
“I was working with a team of writers. We had a lot of ideas,”Cameron stated. “We kept trying to corral it into a box, and it never quite fit. So at a certain point, I said, ‘I’ll just finish it, and see if it’s a movie.’ I did. It came out, I think, at 130 pages. It was like, ‘Man, this is a great story. This is a hell of a read.’”
“Avatar: The High Ground”Because of this, the project was canceled “it was missing one of those critical elements about sequels, which is that it didn’t go enough into the unexpected,” Cameron explained. “It also didn’t play enough by ‘Avatar’ rules, which is to connect us to the dream world, that which has a spiritual component that we can’t even quite quantify in words. It ticked every other box, but it didn’t tick that one.”
Cameron and his crew took some elements from “Avatar: The High Ground”They were sprinkled throughout the sequels that were used. “Avatar: The Way of Water,”A third is on the way “Avatar” movie. He also turned the elements that didn’t get used into a graphic novel arriving Dec. 6.
“There’s some great stuff in it,”Cameron stated. “I mean, you’ve got the Na’vi fighting with bows and arrows in zero-G. I mean, I’m there! I want to see that movie. But it just didn’t achieve enough of the overall story and thematic goals that I had in mind. So we’re turning it into a Dark Horse graphic novel. You’ll be able to see that interim battle that took place between movie one and movie two.”
“Avatar The Way of Water”Dec. 16: In theaters across the country