Earlier this month, Cameron made waves by announcing that he was making not one, but THREE Avatar sequels simultaneously with the aim to release them each December holiday season between 2016 and 2018. Well for lovers of Pandora, the hits just keep on coming.
Cameron and 20th Century Fox today announced another add-on to their highest grossing film’s world. Except this time it won’t have hundreds of millions of dollars in CGI. Heck, it won’t even need tinted glasses to see (though that may help on the beach). No, Cameron is bringing his high-tech vision to the most straightforward form of narrative: prose.
The director and studio have hired author Steven Charles Gould ( Jumper) to pen FOUR novels about Avatar’s universe with the hopes to expand the world-building universe in anticipation for the first 2016 sequel.
Cameron describes Gould in the press release as, “one of the shining lights in contemporary science fiction, and I’ve long admired the worlds and characters he’s created in his books and stories.”
Cameron is currently working with screenwriters Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds, The Sarah Connor Chronicles), Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planet of the Apes, Jurassic Park IV) and Shane Salerno (Savages, Alien vs. Predator: Requiem) to pen his screenplay treatments.