Official!!!! Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana signed on for the next 3 sequels

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Tsanten Eywa 'eveng

It's gone official. Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana has been signed on for the next 3 sequels, Avatar 2, Avatar 3 and Avatar 4. Outstanding!!!


http://www.avatarmovie.com/news-1.html

LOS ANGELES (January 14, 2014) __ James Cameron has set Sam Worthington and Zoë Saldana to reprise their Avatar roles in the three sequels scheduled to begin production later this year, the Oscar®-winning filmmaker announced today. In the 2009 original, Worthington's Jake Sully was a wounded former Marine confined to a wheelchair. His bravery and destiny help define a world he didn't even know existed. As Jake's relationship deepened with Saldana's Neytiri, a fearless and beautiful Na'vi huntress, he learned to respect the Na'vi way and finally took his place among them.

Commented James Cameron: "Jake Sully is rare combination of passion, strength, street smarts and soul, which requires a lot from an actor. Sam brought to the role a combination of sensitivity, vulnerability and strength. Zoë captured every aspect of the character I envisioned, bringing to Neytiri a mix of delicacy, fierceness and incredible physicality. I am beyond pleased they'll be returning with us to Pandora."

Last year, Cameron announced that not only is he moving forward with the most anticipated films of the next decade, but that the sequels had grown in number from two films to three. Additionally, to help bring his expanding universe to life, Cameron hired screenwriters Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), Rick Jaffa & Amanda Silver (Rise of the Planets of the Apes) and Shane Salerno (Savages, Salinger) to collaborate with him on the screenplays for the three films. The as yet untitled Avatar sequels will be filmed back-to-back. The release of the first follow-up will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later.

Cameron and Jon Landau through Lightstorm Entertainment will produce AVATAR 2, 3, and 4 for Twentieth Century Fox.

AVATAR is the highest grossing film of all time, taking in nearly $2.8 billion in worldwide box office. It is also the top-selling Blu-ray disc of all time. AVATAR won Golden Globe® awards for Best Motion Picture and Best Director; and was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won Oscars for art direction, visual effects and cinematography.

AVATAR was written by Cameron from an idea he nurtured for over a decade, while working on the technology necessary to realize its wholly imagined world. Working with Joe Letteri and his team at Peter Jackson's WETA Digital, Cameron created a fully immersive 3D cinematic experience of a new kind, where revolutionary technology that was invented to make the film disappeared into the emotion of the characters and the epic nature of the story.

The three AVATAR sequels will mark Cameron's latest collaborations with Twentieth Century Fox, a relationship that spans 27 years and marks one of the most successful filmmaker-studio alliances in motion picture history. Cameron and Fox first joined forces in 1985 for Aliens, which became a sci-fi classic. Next came The Abyss, which revolutionized visual effects technology; and True Lies, a blockbuster starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. In 1996, Fox greenlighted Cameron's Titanic, which became the most successful film in history, and won a record-breaking eleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Tìtstewan

Yeah, in the news section is a thread about it.
Quote from: Toruk Makto on January 14, 2014, 05:16:23 PM
The official announcement is going out now that Sam Worthington and Zoë Saldana will be back for all of the sequels.  Not unexpected, but it is now a a certainty.

But this is with an article and link. :) Irayo!

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Varför minns jag alla dåliga vitsar, men glömmer alla infix i Na'vi?? ???
Why do I remember all bad jokes, but forget all the infixes in Na'vi?? :-[

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Toruk Makto

Quote from: Tìtstewan on January 15, 2014, 12:11:17 AM
Yeah, in the news section is a thread about it.
Quote from: Toruk Makto on January 14, 2014, 05:16:23 PM
The official announcement is going out now that Sam Worthington and Zoë Saldana will be back for all of the sequels.  Not unexpected, but it is now a a certainty.

But this is with an article and link. :) Irayo!

Thanks for posting this!  

As a side note, LightStorm thinks highly enough of us that LearnNavi was included in the initial announcement distribution. If I were not on the road in Denver right now, we would have had the announcement on our main web site about the same time it came out in Variety's "breaking news".  :)

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Not unexpected but great :D Also, didn't they say the sequel was planned for the end of 2014? Do we know what the ETA is now?

Quote from: Toruk Makto on January 15, 2014, 06:53:37 AM
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As a side note, LightStorm thinks highly enough of us that LearnNavi was included in the initial announcement distribution. If I were not on the road in Denver right now, we would have had the announcement on our main web site about the same time it came out in Variety's "breaking news".  :)

This is so cool! Next stop: everyone on LN gets to be in the movie

Tìtstewan

Quote from: Nyx on January 15, 2014, 06:09:08 PM
Not unexpected but great :D Also, didn't they say the sequel was planned for the end of 2014? Do we know what the ETA is now?
Nope, 2016...
It was also mentioned on Na'viteri:
Quote from: http://forum.learnnavi.org/naviteri/t24230/msg590427/#msg590427First sequel to arrive December 2016
...nìkeftxo.

Quote from: Nyx on January 15, 2014, 06:09:08 PM
This is so cool! Next stop: everyone on LN gets to be in the movie
This would be so über awesome! Yeah, I guess, everyone would play as Na'vi, because we can (more or less) speak Na'vi. :) :) :D

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Quote from: Nyx on January 15, 2014, 06:09:08 PM
This is so cool! Next stop: everyone on LN gets to be in the movie

^This^ Avatar2 needs more nantang!

;) 8)
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Quote from: Toruk Makto on January 15, 2014, 06:53:37 AM
Thanks for posting this!  

As a side note, LightStorm thinks highly enough of us that LearnNavi was included in the initial announcement distribution. If I were not on the road in Denver right now, we would have had the announcement on our main web site about the same time it came out in Variety's "breaking news".  :)

Oh wow, that's awesome! Irayo to Lightstorm!  :D

And good to hear the news that Sam and Zoe are being prepped for the sequels -- Yay!  :)
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Mesireatu

Have you seen that Sam, no, Jake, is in a new movie? But every time I see the pics from the movie I don't see the new character, except for the loss of the wheelchair, it's Jake!!
Varför minns jag alla dåliga vitsar, men glömmer alla infix i Na'vi?? ???
Why do I remember all bad jokes, but forget all the infixes in Na'vi?? :-[

Jag älskar dig, Sara L!!
Nga yawne lu oer, Sara L!!