Producer Jon Landau reveals new Avatar 2 story details for James Cameron's upcoming sequels. Avatar is Cameron's epic sci-fi franchise that shattered box office records upon its release and held the title of the highest-grossing movie of all time for about a decade. It was briefly unseated by Avengers: Endgame, but reclaimed the top spot shortly afterwards, now sitting at #1 with a total lifetime gross of $2.8 billion.
Avatar follows Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) a disabled former Marine in the year 2154, who finds his way to Pandora, a forested planet inhabited by an alien race called the Na'vi. Sully becomes an "Avatar" while there, inhabiting the body of a Na'vi and eventually joins the tribe to battle against the human invaders. The series also stars Zoe Saldana as Sully's mate, Neytiri, Stephen Lang, Sigourney Weaver, Giovanni Ribisi, and joining the cast of the sequel(s), Michelle Yeoh, Kate Winslet, Jemaine Clement, Edie Falco, and Cliff Curtis.
Few details have been revealed about Cameron's plans for the Avatar sequels, but Landau has revealed some key points about it in the new issue of Total Film Magazine (via Games Radar). Landau explains the exact story in Avatar 2, saying that it focuses largely on the Sully family, with Jake and Neytiri now having a brood of their own in the sequel. The Sullys’, still living on Pandora, are once again faced with RDA mining operations threatening their existence, forcing Jake to take his family to "what is perceived as a safe harbor" at the reef.
And when you get to the reef, there’s a clan we call the Metkayina. The Sullys are no longer in the environment that they know, the rainforest. They become the fish out of water. They become the fish out of water both culturally and just environmentally.
Landau went on to say, "The scripts are the blueprint from which we work," and that a large portion of time was spent writing the planned four sequels with the intent of each one resolving itself "with a big emotional resolution" but still connected to a "larger epic saga." Landau said about Cameron's overall approach to the franchise sequels: "I think the story of Avatar 2, and the strength of the story, is what Jim [Cameron] always does in any of his movies: he writes in universal themes that are bigger than any one genre. And if you think about this, there’s really no more universal theme than family. At the center of each of our sequels is the Sully family. What are the dynamics that parents go through to protect their family?"
The journey of the Avatar sequels has been a long and ambitious one, with Cameron essentially dedicating decades of his life to them. The acquisition of Fox by Disney further challenged things, while Cameron continued (and continues) to tell his epic Avatar saga. Landau's mention of "The Sullys'" is interesting, as the implications of that, as well as "family" being a core theme, implies that Avatar will become more about Jake and Neytiri's legacy than just about them individually or the threats that they face. Exploring more of Pandora, particularly the oceanic life with a new clan of natives, should help refresh the franchise a bit, which has seemingly fallen out of the limelight given that it will have been 13 years since the original debuted when Avatar 2 finally hits the big screen on December 16, 2022.
Source: Total Film Magazine via Games Radar
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