AICN just conducted an interview with James Cameron here at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, and while he doesn't comment on "Project 880", he does say that he'll announce the project next month and gives us updates on other projects:
Coffin "I've changed the nature of my company. I'm now not developing movies for other directors. I've got four films teed up right now that are either in a good treatment or a good shooting draft form for me to do over the next five years. I'm teed up. I'm in for longer than five years, so I don't need a development staff right now. I just need a little core team, like my documentary team, except on the feature side to just go out and nail these films, one after another. That's going to be the game plan. So, we changed the company and a lot of people left the company as a result. What I've said is there are only a couple of projects that I will continue to be involved with that we did develop and "Coffin" is one of them. The reason for that is because Guillermo del Toro is one of my best friends and we've never really worked together. I mean, we always feel like we're working together because he gets all involved in my stuff, I get all involved with his stuff, but not in an official capacity. So, "Coffin" is definitely not dead and Guillermo says he still wants to make it."
Alien 5 "Ridley and I talked about doing another ALIEN film and I said to 20th Century Fox that I would develop a 5th ALIEN film. I started working on a story, I was working with another writer and Fox came back to me and said, "We've got this really good script for ALIEN VS PREDATOR and I got pretty upset. I said, "You do that you're going to kill the validity of the franchise in my mind." Because to me, that was FRANKENSTEIN MEETS WEREWOLF. It was Universal just taking their assets and starting to play them off against each other... Milking it. So, I stopped work"
For the full interview, click here.
