“Avatar” filmmaker James Cameron says he wants to make an animated “Avatar” series.
Hot on the heels of this morning’s official online launch of the first trailer for “Avatar: Fire and Ash,” fresh interview quotes from Cameron have been making the rounds discussing the future of his franchise.
He says that he’s spoken to Disney about potentially doing an animated project set within his universe, not unlike the most well-known of these things – “The Animatrix” film.
As he explains to Empire magazine:
“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.’ There might even be an animated feature in there – it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature. 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.”
He added that the animated stories could explore “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.”
He adds that while the idea is there, there hasn’t been any real progress on it yet:
“We haven’t done much with that yet. We’re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing, and I’ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it.”
“Avatar: Fire and Ash” is set to hit cinemas on December 19th, with a four-year gap before the next film arrives in 2029. An animated anthology feature could well fill in the gap with a release.
