With the mammoth success of “Avatar”, what everyone wants to know (no one more so than Fox, who are still counting the dollars) is when the sequel will be coming out, but producer Jon Landau says it’ll come when everyone involved is ready and not before.
In an interview with comingsoon.net, Landau says, “Look, I think one of the things that we have been successful at is that the most pressure we feel is our own pressure. I think that’s true as make a movie, whether it be “Titanic” or “Avatar”. Our pressure about an “Avatar” sequel is self imposed. We’ve always said that if the public wanted a sequel, that we would do a sequel. That having been said, in my opinion, Jim (Cameron) has done two sequels in his career (“Aliens” and “Terminator 2: Judgment Day”) and both times he has at least equaled if not surpassed the original movie. We’re only going to do it when we have a piece of material, a script, that we believe will be at least as entertaining and unique as the first movie was.”
He admits, however, that if they do want to do a sequel, it will be a lot easier to make than the original. “The hard part is out of the way,” he concedes. “We figured out how to do it, and our goal in the next one is to do it more cost effectively and time effectively, and we have kept on a team of our technical staff, who is working right now on Gen 2 of what we did, but with all the experience that we’ve had. We kept them on, and they’re working for us right now.”
