James Cameron has plans for an Avatar animated anthology series
James Cameron has big plans for the future of the Avatar franchise, which could include an animated anthology series. While speaking with Empire, the director revealed that he’s spoken with Disney about such a series, which could even spawn its own movie.
“I said, ‘Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that’s essentially in the world, but stories that you wouldn’t have expected from that world,’” he said. “There might even be an animated feature in there – it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature.“
Cameron continued, “A good early example is The Animatrix, where they went afield in the Matrix world. These are all great examples for how we can add texture and baroque detail to the world of Avatar.” The sky is the limit when it comes to the type of stories the Avatar animated anthology series could tell, which Cameron teased could include “backstory on characters and tangential stuff that happened off-camera within the movies. Who first landed on Pandora? The first expedition. You could go anywhere you want.“
Don’t expect to see the series anytime soon, as Cameron admits they “haven’t done much with that yet.”
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