With the sequel to “Don’t Breathe” hitting cinemas next week, the film’s star Stephen Lang has been out doing press rounds for the suspense thriller. During that press, he briefly discussed the four “Avatar” sequels.
As we know, the second and third films are shot with some of the fourth also done. That said, the scripts for the fourth and fifth are done as well with Lang serving as the villain in all four sequels.
While much of the details about the film are under wraps, Lang was asked about his reaction to reading the scripts. He tells Collider:
“When I finished the last script, I was weeping. I just thought it was so beautiful. Yeah, the final script because he’s telling a great, great story, an original story, a beautiful, beautiful story, and I was just incredibly moved by it.
I hope and I trust and believe that audiences will be, too, because one of the things that he does really, really well is he moves it from the page to the stage in a way that that is very literal. You know what I mean? You really see it. What you read is what you get from him, I think, and more.”
While he wouldn’t discuss any of the films, he did touch upon the way Cameron is using technology in the films they’ve shot so far:
“He’s definitely pushing it big time on this one. I’m not giving away any trade secrets to say that, but I remember working on a sequence with him, there was an issue of scale going on. That’s all I’ll say. And it was defeating. It took and brought everything to kind of a halt. There was a problem that no one else recognized except him at the moment. So he had to come up with a solution. Anyway, we basically shut down or started working on something else.
The next day, he came to me kind of really excited and said, ‘I figured out the algorithm to do this.’ He stated this algorithm and I’m looking at him thinking, ‘What the hell are you talking about? I have no idea what you’re talking about.’ But he did. He created a problem… there was a problem because he wanted a scene, something to happen, and then he solved it. He’s been doing that for his entire career. And it’s pretty cool, pretty amazing.”
Filming on both performance capture and live-action parts of the second and third films concluded last year. As of now “Avatar 2” is set for December 16th 2022, while the fifth film in the series isn’t due to arrive until late 2028.
