So what’s Cameron’s plan for this go-round? According to the AP, he plans to broaden the perspective beyond protagonist Jake. But, uh, this doesn’t sound particularly promising: “We spread it around quite a bit more as we go forward. It’s really the story of his family, the family that he creates on Pandora. His extended family. So think of it as a family saga like ‘The Godfather.'”
Right. Because it’s so easy to make a family saga like The Godfather when you’ve got an iffy record, plot-wise.
Mostly, though, it sounds like this is going to be more random set pieces for his invented world:
“It’s going to be a lot of new imagery and a lot of new environments and creatures across Pandora,” he said. “We’re blowing it out all over the place. At first I thought I was going to take it onto other worlds as well, in the same solar system, but it turned out not to be necessary. I mean the Pandora that we have imagined will be a fantasy land that is going to occupy people for decades to come, the way I see it.”
How many hours of glowing trees and dino-bird Pegasus can viewers really take, though?
If only it were commercially feasible for James Cameron to just skip the story and make a travelogue called “Vistas of Pandora” and market it to stoners. Then we might have a solution on our hands.
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