Everyone can, and does, make jokes about James Cameron’s Avatar franchise. “Nobody can remember any of the characters!” and, “When’s the last time you had a conversation about Avatar?” are the most common. Well, you know who can remember every Na’vi’s name and talks about those movies all the time? Accountants. Pandora is a fictional world that doubles as a real mint. People all around the world show up in record-setting droves when a new film arrives in theaters. So while people might laugh, don’t be surprised if James Cameron’s dream for an Avatar spinoff comes true. The director says he hopes to make an Avatar animated anthology series.
Cameron spoke to Empire about Avatar: Fire and Ash for the magazine’s upcoming issue on the franchise’s third film, but during the interview he touched on an idea he has for other stories from Pandora, including for an animated series. Here’s what he told Empire about his discussions with Disney about the future of the planet
I said, “Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that’s essentially in the world [of Avatar], but stories that you wouldn’t have expected from that world.” There might even be an animated feature in there – it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature.
Avatar has already spawned a video game and an entire theme park land. An Avatar animated anthology series and/or feature film doesn’t seem that outrageous. It might actually be the most interesting way to explore that world and the Na’vi. A show set in Pandora also has a chance to be one of the best-looking cartoons ever.
Don’t expect to see it soon, though. If it even happens at all. Cameron also said they haven’t done much work on the concept yet. “We’re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing. And I’ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it,” he said.
Plenty of people will instinctively make a joke about an Avatar animated anthology series. None of those people will be Disney accountants.
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