All four of these great videos come to you via TheYoungFolks.com and their YouTube channel. They were filmed at the Q&A session following the screening of ‘Man On A Ledge’ in Chicago on 18th January 2012.
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Drew McWeeny of HotFix.com interviews Sam about ‘The Debt’, going on to talk about the ‘Avatar’ sequels and ‘Wrath Of The Titans’:
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ComingSoon.net have posted a couple of great interview segments from ‘The Debt’ press junket in LA, in which he talks about the upcoming Avatar sequels and Wrath Of The Titans
On the Avatar sequels:
“I know he’s nutting out like a bible at the moment,” Worthington said today, “[It’s] sort of like a precursor of Avatar 1, to just get himself back into the world and the mindset and the characters. Jim’s the person who will tell me when to show up,” he laughed. “I’ve talked to him, he’s told me what his plans for the story are, and it’s huge. It’s just monumental. But he’s not going to start until he raises the bar for himself, and he’s in no rush. That’s how he works – it’s very detailed and very weighty,” he observed. “But the story arc is huge; I needed a break halfway through because I was exhausted. It was insane, but it’s amazing. It’s going to be amazing.”
And on Wrath Of The Titans:
Q:How tough is it to balance smaller, independent films with blockbusters?
Sam Worthington: I think I’m pretty lucky to start with. If you get something like “Avatar”, it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors. But there was a thing my mate told me years ago, when I said, “Oh, there’s a great independent script and a great blockbuster script, and the independent thing will show me off more as a character.” He said, “But which movie would you go and see?” He said, “You go see blockbusters.” And that’s how I pick. I pick which movie by “would I want to go see something like ‘The Debt’?” Or, “Do I want to see something like ‘Terminator’?” And within that, you kind of by chance end up with a career that balances. You’re not just sitting there going, “I’m going to do one big one for them, and one small one for me.” That’s kind of the ideal, at leats that’s what people think. But when you talk with Christian Bale, he’s not thinking, “one for you, one for them”, he’s thinking “one for me – what story do I want to tell?” And whether it’s “Terminator” or “The Fighter”, that’s how he picks.
Q: After doing something like “Texas Killing Fields”, How difficult is it to go from material that is so weighty to something like “Clash of the Titans 2″?
Worthington: You make “Clash 2″ weighty. “Clash 1″ is a video game. You make “Clash 2″ weighty. You take everything you’ve learned, and go, I’m not doing this f–ing shit! I’m going to do a weighty script in a blockbuster. That’s the bigness of a blockbuster. They’re very hard because they’re done by such a machine, so you try to get that weight that an independent can allow you, that freedom that they have on an independent script, and then you try to fit it into a blockbuster where there’s a whole set of people who have a say. With something like “Clash 2″, that’s definitely what we’ve aimed for. And that’s all I really want to say on that.
A number of sources are reporting today that James Cameron ‘fully intends’ to shoot Avatar 2 at double the usual film speed of most Hollywood movies.
Speaking at the CinemaCon convention in Las Vegas, the ground-breaking director said that the new filming technique would greatly improve 3D movie images.
On planning to shoot the follow up to Avatar at 48 to 60 frames per second instead of the usual 24 to reduce a “strobing” effect that he said can blur moving film images, Mr Cameron said:
“I was stunned when I saw it, at how clear and crisp it was. If 3D is like looking at reality through a window, we’ve taken the glass out of the window.”
Cameron’s production partner Jon Landau reckons the higher frame rate will make “a big difference to the audience experience – not just for 3D movies, but for all movies”.
And Mr Landau said that as the shutter is “closed for less time”, the result will be a muchy brighter image. The Hollywood Reporter says this is “particularly noteworthy in 3D, as the glasses can reduce the amount of light that the viewer sees”.
Landau noted that the higher frame rates are already available in digital cameras, “but they always utilize it for slow motion”.
James Cameron also revealed that he is still working on the sequel’s script and that he would not begin actual filming on Avatar 2 for another 18 months.
“I’ve got a bit of time to get this sorted out,” he explained.
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EntertainmentWeekly.com have reported today that Avatar 2 has a tentative release date of Christmas 2014, with Avatar 3 following on for Christmas 2015 release.
James Cameron tells EW:
“I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.”
And as for who may be in the new movies, he says:
“Basically, if you survived the first film, you get to be in the second film, at least in some form,”
He also mentioned a very positive side note to the Avatar phenomenon:
“Fox has partnered with me to donate a chunk of the profits to environmental causes that are at the heart of the Avatar world,” says the director. “I didn’t want to make more Avatar movies without a grander plan in place.”
Looks like the underlying message of the movie has been embraced by the public and a great deal of good will come of people’s concerns for our own world’s well-being.
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deadline.com have just posted this on their site:
LOS ANGELES (October 27, 2010) __ Moving forward with the most anticipated films of the next decade, Fox Filmed Entertainment Chairmen Jim Gianopulos and Tom Rothman announced today that Academy Award®-winning filmmaker James Cameron has agreed to make AVATAR 2 and 3 as his next films.
Cameron, who had always viewed AVATAR as the creation of a new world and mythology, will begin work on the scripts early next year with an eye towards commencing production later in 2011. Cameron will decide if he will shoot the films back-to-back after he completes the scripts, but the release of the first, as yet untitled sequel, is targeted for December 2014, with the third film contemplated for a December 2015 release.
AVATAR 2 & 3 will be produced by Cameron and Jon Landau for Cameron’s Lightstorm Entertainment.
“AVATAR is not only the highest grossing movie of all time, it is a created universe based on the singular imagination and daring of James Cameron, who also raised the consciousness of people worldwide to some of the greatest issues facing our planet,” said Rothman and Gianopulos. “We had no higher priority, and can feel no greater joy, than enabling Jim to continue and expand his vision of the world of AVATAR. This is a great day in the history of our company, and we thank Jim, Jon Landau, Rae Sanchini and all of their team and all of our Fox colleagues throughout the world, who have made this possible.”
Commented Cameron: “It is a rare and remarkable opportunity when a filmmaker gets to build a fantasy world, and watch it grow, with the resources and partnership of a global media company. AVATAR was conceived as an epic work of fantasy – a world that audiences could visit, across all media platforms, and this moment marks the launch of the next phase of that world. With two new films on the drawing boards, my company and I are embarking on an epic journey with our partners at Twentieth Century Fox. Our goal is to meet and exceed the global audience’s expectations for the richness of AVATAR’s visual world and the power of the storytelling. In the second and third films, which will be self contained stories that also fulfill a greater story arc, we will not back off the throttle of AVATAR’s visual and emotional horsepower, and will continue to explore its themes and characters, which touched the hearts of audiences in all cultures around the world. I’m looking forward to returning to Pandora, a world where our imaginations can run wild.”
