{"id":30057,"date":"2025-07-29T02:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30057\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T02:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T02:16:11","slug":"james-cameron-teases-avatar-animated-anthology-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/30057\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Teases Avatar Animated Anthology Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"

While the Avatar<\/a> saga is, so far, a primarily cinematic story, James Cameron\u2019s imaginative world has already expanded into other mediums. Avatar: The Game and Frontiers Of Pandora<\/a> have given gamers the chance to explore the Na\u2019vi homeworld in a more interactive way, while \u2018Pandora \u2013 The World Of Avatar\u2019 at Walt Disney World offers a rare opportunity for fans to be transported to the lush moon itself in theme park form. But Cameron has ideas for a new branch of the Avatar (home)tree \u2013 one that would sit neatly alongside the theatrical entries.<\/p>\n

As he tells Empire in our world-exclusive Avatar: Fire And Ash issue<\/a>, he\u2019s spoken to Disney about the possibility of telling more Avatar stories in animation. \u201cI said, \u2018Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that’s essentially in the world, but stories that you wouldn’t have expected from that world\u2019,\u201d he reveals. \u201cThere might even be an animated feature in there \u2013 it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature.\u201d<\/p>\n

While animated anthologies like Love, Death + Robots and Secret Level have flourished on streaming, there are previous examples of cinematic worlds taking a similar approach to explore deeper lore. \u201cA good early example is The Animatrix<\/a>, where they went afield in the Matrix world,\u201d says Cameron. \u201cThese are all great examples for how we can add texture and baroque detail to the world of Avatar.\u201d The animated stories could, he says, deliver \u201cbackstory on characters and tangential stuff that happened off-camera within the movies. Who first landed on Pandora? The first expedition. You could go anywhere you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s early days on the idea for now. \u201cWe haven’t done much with that yet,\u201d Cameron concedes. (He has, after all, been rather busy with The Way Of Water<\/a> and Fire And Ash<\/a>.) \u201cWe’re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing,\u201d he adds, \u201cand I’ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it.\u201d Still, the seed has been planted \u2013 here\u2019s hoping it flourishes like a glowing piece of Pandoran flora.<\/p>\n

\"Empire<\/p>\n

Read Empire\u2019s full Avatar: Fire And Ash story \u2013 going to Avatar HQ for two days with James Cameron as he works on the film, also featuring new cast interviews, never-before-seen images and more \u2013 in the September 2025 issue<\/a>, on sale Thursday 31 July. Pre-order a copy online here<\/a>. Avatar: Fire And Ash comes to UK cinemas from 19 December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While the Avatar saga is, so far, a primarily cinematic story, James Cameron\u2019s imaginative world has already expanded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-30057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}