Filmmaker James Cameron is hoping to make moviegoers an offer they can’t refuse with the next round of “Avatar” movies by bringing an element of “The Godfather’s” epic sensibility to the world of Pandora.
And he has plans to expand the story into a five-film epic if the first few are successful.“It’s a generational family saga.
It’s very different from the first film,” Cameron says.
“In terms of the storytelling, I found myself — not for any reasons of the zeitgeist or what was popular — but I found myself, as a father of five, starting to think about, ‘What would an “Avatar” story be like if it was a family drama? If it was “The Godfather?”’ Obviously, a very different genre, very different story, but I got intrigued by that idea.”Cameron points out that the five-film epic is “green lit” and he has personally committed to all of them,
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