After grossing nearly $3 billion worldwide in cinemas:
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm
Avatar's rights-holders are considering making a sequel ONLY IF IT CAN BE AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100314/lf_ ... s_avatar_2
That's no easy task, but let's not forget that James Cameron helped make Terminator 2, and also Aliens (2). Those films have their detractors but both were box office successes.
That said, what do you think are some of the situations that might arise in such a potential sequel to Avatar? I'd like to take a few swings:
*Earthlings seek to return to Pandora, in part because life on (reportedly non-green) Earth continues to deteriorate.
*At the very least, Earthlings realize that there's still economic opportunity in Pandora's herbal riches, while Unobtanium's value has headed anywhere but South since the uprising.
*What defense does Pandora have against Earthlings who seek to "gas" or otherwise terraform the place so that they won't need to wear oxygen masks any longer?
*Granted, Jake Sulley's not eager to allow additional Earthlings to return after he inadvertently helped some figure out how to kill Neytiri's father years before (making him permanently suspect among the Na'Vi). But what if Jake discovers a trace of cellulite on Neytiri and worries that there's a growing potential need for a plastic surgeon from Hollywood to come and rescue Pandora's best asset? :lol:
*Seriously though, how do we know Jake's cloned avatar (his only remaining body at this point) was designed to last for more than a few years? Replicative fading is one of the problems cloned entities face, and the science of fusing human DNA with that of Na'Vi wasn't exactly perfected when Jake's Avatar was created. Nobody thought he'd become a permanent occupant, after all. :? So Jake really may be forced to allow some humans to return to Pandora in exchange for their medical support. That opens a Pandora's box in terms of interspecies relations...especially when humans he'd originally allowed to remain on Pandora grow somewhat nostalgic for folks of their own kind & culture (which happens to many after half a decade or so of living abroad).
*Meanwhile, as happened with Spain after finally repelling the Moors during the 1400's and then conquering Latin America, the colonized Na'Vi may eventually become the exploring, spacefaring aspiring conquerors. Some Na'Vi may very well want to "return the goodwill" reciprocally to Earth, whose people killed so many Na'Vi and even destroyed Hometree. :twisted: Worse still, one of the major Na'Vi clans is now headed by someone who is part human, and others wouldn't mind snatching away Jake's power & influence, in ways that becoming war-lords can make possible.
*James Cameron might even appease the political Right this time around, by including dialogue tying the Na'Vi's retalliation to the aggressiveness of the modern day "politically correct" movement here on Earth, which is used by some to parasitically oppress others while using past injustices as justification. He may even make some Earth-born colonists seem sympathetic by throwing in how they desperately seek to relocate to Pandora because it's a tax haven, like 21st Century ones featured at http://www.LowTax.net . Just as the U.S.A. was colonized in part by Puritans and Quakers, Pandora could be colonized by Tea Partiers who refer to the economic malaise back on their home planet which resulted from a plague of ever-increasing taxes and governmental debts. :idea: Such Tea Partiers could wind up in intense debate with other colonists on Pandora who seek to impose a cap & trade tax on Pandora too, thereby alleviating Earth's competitive disadvantage in the production of goods & services. Even the Na'Vi could feel politically irked enough to chime in once tax-hugging activists try and encourage the Na'Vi's dragon fleet to form labor unions and demand community property rights from their lifelong riders. :shock:
It's easy to say "leave well enough alone and make no sequels" but that didn't stop more movies from being made in the Terminator and Alien series, and commercially successfully so. James Cameron even had an interest in the Planet of the Apes reimagining before Tim Burton took over, and incidentally Fox is now working on a prequel called something like Caesar: Rise of the Apes:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=17224
Successful movies spawn sequels when feasible, and Avatar likely will even as Independence Day didn't (but still might, according to rumors at Fox). The better Avatar sequel ideas fans can come up with, the greater the likelihood that Avatar's future will be bright, not bleak like Poltergeist's or Crocodile Dundee's. :roll:
:?: So what do YOU think might happen in Avatar sequels that could somehow live up to the original, if that's even possible?
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=avatar.htm
Avatar's rights-holders are considering making a sequel ONLY IF IT CAN BE AS GOOD AS THE ORIGINAL:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100314/lf_ ... s_avatar_2
That's no easy task, but let's not forget that James Cameron helped make Terminator 2, and also Aliens (2). Those films have their detractors but both were box office successes.
That said, what do you think are some of the situations that might arise in such a potential sequel to Avatar? I'd like to take a few swings:
*Earthlings seek to return to Pandora, in part because life on (reportedly non-green) Earth continues to deteriorate.
*At the very least, Earthlings realize that there's still economic opportunity in Pandora's herbal riches, while Unobtanium's value has headed anywhere but South since the uprising.
*What defense does Pandora have against Earthlings who seek to "gas" or otherwise terraform the place so that they won't need to wear oxygen masks any longer?
*Granted, Jake Sulley's not eager to allow additional Earthlings to return after he inadvertently helped some figure out how to kill Neytiri's father years before (making him permanently suspect among the Na'Vi). But what if Jake discovers a trace of cellulite on Neytiri and worries that there's a growing potential need for a plastic surgeon from Hollywood to come and rescue Pandora's best asset? :lol:
*Seriously though, how do we know Jake's cloned avatar (his only remaining body at this point) was designed to last for more than a few years? Replicative fading is one of the problems cloned entities face, and the science of fusing human DNA with that of Na'Vi wasn't exactly perfected when Jake's Avatar was created. Nobody thought he'd become a permanent occupant, after all. :? So Jake really may be forced to allow some humans to return to Pandora in exchange for their medical support. That opens a Pandora's box in terms of interspecies relations...especially when humans he'd originally allowed to remain on Pandora grow somewhat nostalgic for folks of their own kind & culture (which happens to many after half a decade or so of living abroad).
*Meanwhile, as happened with Spain after finally repelling the Moors during the 1400's and then conquering Latin America, the colonized Na'Vi may eventually become the exploring, spacefaring aspiring conquerors. Some Na'Vi may very well want to "return the goodwill" reciprocally to Earth, whose people killed so many Na'Vi and even destroyed Hometree. :twisted: Worse still, one of the major Na'Vi clans is now headed by someone who is part human, and others wouldn't mind snatching away Jake's power & influence, in ways that becoming war-lords can make possible.
*James Cameron might even appease the political Right this time around, by including dialogue tying the Na'Vi's retalliation to the aggressiveness of the modern day "politically correct" movement here on Earth, which is used by some to parasitically oppress others while using past injustices as justification. He may even make some Earth-born colonists seem sympathetic by throwing in how they desperately seek to relocate to Pandora because it's a tax haven, like 21st Century ones featured at http://www.LowTax.net .
Just as the U.S.A. was colonized in part by Puritans and Quakers, Pandora could be colonized by Tea Partiers who refer to the economic malaise back on their home planet which resulted from a plague of ever-increasing taxes and governmental debts. :idea: Such Tea Partiers could wind up in intense debate with other colonists on Pandora who seek to impose a cap & trade tax on Pandora too, thereby alleviating Earth's competitive disadvantage in the production of goods & services. Even the Na'Vi could feel politically irked enough to chime in once tax-hugging activists try and encourage the Na'Vi's dragon fleet to form labor unions and demand community property rights from their lifelong riders. :shock: It's easy to say "leave well enough alone and make no sequels" but that didn't stop more movies from being made in the Terminator and Alien series, and commercially successfully so. James Cameron even had an interest in the Planet of the Apes reimagining before Tim Burton took over, and incidentally Fox is now working on a prequel called something like Caesar: Rise of the Apes:
viewtopic.php?f=18&t=17224
Successful movies spawn sequels when feasible, and Avatar likely will even as Independence Day didn't (but still might, according to rumors at Fox). The better Avatar sequel ideas fans can come up with, the greater the likelihood that Avatar's future will be bright, not bleak like Poltergeist's or Crocodile Dundee's. :roll:
:?: So what do YOU think might happen in Avatar sequels that could somehow live up to the original, if that's even possible?
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