‘Avatar’ Casting – Dead Stephen Lang Will be Back

Because we know that the Avatar sequels are the foremost thing on your mind these days, we here at Nerd Bastards now bring you the latest in casting news for James Cameron's money-machines.

It appears as if Stephen Lang, the guy what played the evil-bad-guy, Miles Quaritch will be back.

But wait! That's not all!

He'll be back for all three of the new flicks, despite the fact that the character died in the first film. Whether this is an attempt to make the character interesting or just Cameron's way of recycling villains so that simple-minded viewers don't get confused over who the baddie is remains to be seen.

Okay everyone, you can stop holding your breath with excitement now. Return to your normal routine of checking your Twitter and fapping.

Thanks to Topless Robot for the heads-up.

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James Cameron ‘Avatar’ Sequels Getting Some Writing Assistance

James Cameron has made it a point to let people know that he's going to do at least two Avatar sequels sometime in the future. No doubt, if the money is there he'll keep making them until his viewing audience is completely broke (or their brains have shut down). Unfortunately, the first one, while it was a masterpiece of CGI spectacle, had little in the way of script, the only original ideas being in the visuals. So how can more Avatar possibly be anything other than more of the same? Well, it looks like Cameron is bringing in some more talent to help him put together the new stories.

Writer Josh Friedman is joining the writing pool. In case you didn't know, he's the guy that created The Sarah Connor Chronicles. And while I regret to say I missed that one, I've heard enough good things about the show to have some faith in Friedman.

But does that mean there may be some hope for the new Avatar flicks? With Cameron in charge, we still might end up with the mindless light-show that was the first Avatar, but we can always have hope, right?

Expect to see the next Avatar in theaters.... well, whenever Cameron gets around to it, I guess.

Thanks to /film for the heads-up.

Cameron’s Comments on ‘Avatar’ 2 & 3, Promises Better Script Than ‘Matrix Reloaded’

Sure the release dates keep getting pushed back and there’s also all that talk about a fourth movie in the series, but right now filmmaker James Cameron is putting his focus on penning the back to back sequels to Avatar, the number one money-maker of all time in film.

While talking to Coming Soon, Cameron reiterated his plan to take us into Pandora’s oceans in the sequels, and the director says that his focus on the new setting is to draw parallels with environmental issues here on Earth as opposed to creature-porn with all the weird and wonderful species “Under Da Sea!” on Pandora.

"We're doing 'Avatar' films now, so we're making up an ocean ecosystem for Pandora. That's gonna have less to do with the deep exploration that I've done than it has to do with my concerns about conservation of Earth's oceans. The fact that we're basically overfishing, climate change... a few degrees of temperature rise are gonna basically take out the coral reefs. All those beautiful images of the coral environments we all grew up with won't exist in 50 years at the rate we're going in terms of pumping greenhouse gases into the environment. These are the things that concern me."

"I hope that explains it, 'cause people have connected the dots directly together. 'Oh, going to the challenger deep has a direct connection to what we're going to see in Avatar 2,' and that's not the case at all. It's all the scuba diving I did before I even started the deep ocean stuff that has more of a direct connection to Avatar 2 & 3, which by the way won't take place completely in or under the water. That's just part of the environment of Pandora that we're going to see."

Another thing that Cameron’s conscious of: finding the right place to break the story between the scripts for Avatar 2 and Avatar 3. Here’s what Cameron told Hero Complex:

"It's a little bit of a daunting writing task because it's two scripts and they've both gotta be done at the same time... I'm writing it as separate stories that have an overall arc inclusive of the first film. I don't want to suffer from the 'Matrix 2 problem, where it just ends, like, what the hell? It's gotta end. There's gotta be a sense of conclusion, but also a sense that the journey will continue, and that's a fine line."

I’m right there with you, Jim. I remember seeing The Matrix Reloaded in the theater and sitting in my seat stunned for a couple of minutes trying to comprehend how the movie suddenly ended where it did, while trying to remember for the life of me who that guy who was unconscious next to Neo. Hopefully, Cameron is a more skillful writer than Wachowskis. Of course, he did turn the story of Pocahontas into a Star Wars pastiche and made a mint doing it, so anything’s possible.

Source: ScreenRant