Pitch of the Day: Where Should James Cameron Go With 'Avatar' Franchise?

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In James Cameron’s interview with MTV this week, he admitted that no real legwork has been done as far as plotting out sequels to Avatar](Avatar (2009) - Movie | Moviefone), but he did at least confirm that it would center on the same key characters and hint that the “nasty humans” would return to strike back, *Empire *style. So I’m wondering how the fans would prefer the franchise – likely to include at least two more installments, plus that prequel novel Cameron’s writing – to play out. I’ve got my own thoughts, mostly ridiculous ones, to get you started on proposing a direction(s) for…

***Avatar 2 ***and Avatar 3

Because of Cameron’s statement, specifically that he expects “that those nasty humans didn’t just go away forever [and say], ‘well, that didn’t work,’” I’m dreading that *Avatar 2 *will be too much of the same. But I also thought of how it seems like Empire Strikes Back and could be more of a bad guys win angle. For that, though, we’d definitely need to explore completely new settings on Pandora, just as the *Star Wars *sequel brought us to fresh environments like Hoth and Dagobah. We did see a few other kinds of terrains during a montage in Avatar, so perhaps the sequel can take us to one or more of those. Or something we haven’t yet seen.

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