Me wanst ALITA :( Love her.

i want  BATTLE ANGEL ALITIA god damn it..............he promised us..............someone should start an internet campaign, and we could make up stickers and posters that people could download and then go and stick them on all the Titanic movie posters and in the cinema.......or we could all pool out money and hire a group of really annoying bad comedians to follow him around every where he goes and wear him down with terrible comedy and mime, that could work there is nothing in the Geneva convention against that and who knows we may end up getting military contracts out of it, that or we get added to a watch list, of course maybe we already are and someone is taking note of this.........is it just me of does anyone else hear a weird echo on their telephone and keep seeing a beige van circling their block??

i liked avatar as much as the next guy...but a quadrilogy? even a trilogy would be pushing it. so will they be 5 years apart each in release? not even gonna do a nolan a bit in between just to clear his palate?

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You know what i want to see.I would like to see the Avengers be THE BOX OFFICE MOVIE CHAMP and kick that stupid Cameron Avatar and Titanic movies ASS!If there was somebody who is more humble and worthy to have the best movie of them all that would be Joss Whedon.He wouldn't be a prick like Cameron or Lucas.

And so, jar jar binks found a new home on a planet of tall smurfs.

I blame Disney.James is obligated to making at least a trilogy so Disney can put a Pandora-land or whatever at Animal Kingdom.Stupidest idea ever.  I think both parties are going to wake up, look at who they're in bed with and wonder how much they drank the night before.

Instead Disney should be cranking out an awesome Marvel Universe at Disney-MGM... heck, make it a whole new park.

Cameron's made two of the best sequels of all time. I figure Avatar 2 has a real chance of improving on the first (which wasn't that bad). I'm cautiously optimistic.

Rob, learn a new tune already!  Avatar wasn't THAT bad. It had a decent story, cool action scenes and a worthwhile message. It maybe a bit derivative, but what movie being made today isn't? I'll cop to the fact that James Cameron is a supreme egotist, but most directors are; it's their job to boss people around to realize their "vision". It wouldn't have made all the money it did of "Nobody wants one sequel to Avatar, let alone three". The DVD and Blu-Ray sales would seem to indicate otherwise. Where the hell are you getting your information from anyway? Someone once called TR "the FOX News of nerd gossip", and seeing as you're letting your opinions get in the way of facts, it may be turning into just that. And if you're so hung up on the prospect of a live-action Battle Angel Alita, MAKE YOUR OWN FANFILM!!!!!!!

Doubting Cameron never gets tiring. He always ends up making something worth seeing.

Avatar is about space-faring humans who can make alien bodies and inhibit them remotely...There is several movies in that universe.

The only sequel I'd accept is one with mankind winning. Nuke Pandora!

"No. I still love that project. But Battle Angel is not going to happen for a few years."-James Cameronhttp://www.slashfilm.co...

Sounds like Cameron's getting George Lucas' Disease.

So lets talk about Dumb but Pretty for a second.

People pay attention to pretty things. I'll cite the common breed of celebrity, barfly, and sorority slut as examples. No one *commits* to pretty-but-dumb. Pretty but dumb doesn't get you the job unless you're fulfilling a very specific niche (under the manager's desk), doesn't get you the proverbial ring on the finger (unless you're fulfilling a very specific niche. In bed.), and it sure as hell doesn't make for a successful franchise. Franchise is all about commitment. Avatar is the movie equivalent of the hot-but dumb chick you mess around with once or twice, but ultimately abandon for something with more substance; it is the one-hit wonder of the movie industry. It is not something good enough, loved enough, or innovative enough outside of the blue furry fandom to be worth franchising.

Oh, an attempt will be made. It's practically a given. Cameron will get Avatar 2, because the potential cash-in is too tempting for any studio to pass up; it would be *stupid* not to go for it. But that sequel attempt will be the death blow. Yes, people watched the shit out of the first one; because it was pretty, and the effects were innovative enough to overlook the major story and acting flaws for a view or two.Pretty imagery and flashy 3D antics aren't going to be enough to substitute for solid story-telling, cohesive plot and good acting the next go-round. Those three things are what lets a movie overcome the "sequel rule", and from there become a successful franchise, and Avatar lacked all of it. Unless Cameron has been getting some serious schooling on the matter while he's been trouncing around Under the Sea, Avatar 2 will flop harder than Vanilla Ice's come-back..

There's not going to be an Avatar 3 or 4--the industry learned that lesson once with the original Batman movie franchise, and had it reinforced with the Spiderman movies. Comic book popularity earned Spiderman a remake, and excellent storytelling and acting are what made the Batman reboots successful. Again, Avatar doesn't have that. Any of it. Cameron won't survive Avatar 2, and neither will his career if he's not doing something else besides Avatar.

Limiting yourself to a doomed attempt at a franchise with no other works to offset the inevitable fallout isn't even super-villainy; it's super-douchery.

You know, if I made a sci-fi movie no, universe and it made that much money, you bet I would make more of it before I make my fanboy dream come true, useing the money I made from the other movies.Plus the best part of Avatar is the lore.There is pages and pages off data on the PLANTS alone!I love stuff like that.So detailed~

I wonder what is going on with Laeta Kalogridis. I belive she was the writer / producer who brought cameron Alita in the first place. She seems decent... thouh she was involved with utter shit DC heroine adaptions such as Catwoman and Birds of Prey.. but those spund like issues of major majpr studio meddling so I wpuls not hang those miserable failures on her.

I hope she farms Alita out to someone new... maybe usong some of the test work and effects studio that Camera developed for Avatar along side the test Alita work they did and shoved off to the side.

I have another proposal.

Cameron made Titanic (and The Abyss), then went all apeshit with diving and the ocean.  As far as I'm concerned, he can make as many Avatar movies he wants as long as he spends as much time and resources on space travel. 

And I don't mean asteroid mining.  Human exploration, planets (with or without blue cat people), the whole nine yards.  Do that and I'll gladly buy 3D copies of Space Pocahontas, Battle Avatar Alita, or whatever the hell else he puts out.

"WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING WITH BATTLE ANGEL ALITA YOU BASTARD"

QFT. Hopefully, he'll give up the rights at some point. Sigh...

GAAAHHH....My precious Battle Angel! Although it's very unlikely I hope Cameron gets his head out of his ass long enough to make it.

Real Native Americans will soon be a thing of the past.  James Cameron is just paying homage to them with a "really" creepy I.P.  Personally, I can't wait to see the Na'vi sing about the color of the wind and to ask the space bobcat why he grins, or to see the Na'vi Billy Jack.

Also, he ransomed the president's daughter for one million dollars.

James Cameron NOT making Battle Angel is the best James Cameron related news I've ever heard.

I'm quite frankly baffled that people might think otherwise.

Since James Cameron won't be making Battle Angel Alita, I am now the primary rights holder of the film title. Screw you Award Pictures.

I have all this money and I see so many problems with the world. Should I use the money to fund clean energy research or some other way to fix these so-called problems?

Nah, I'll spend millions of dollars turning The Battle of Endor into a 3D movie franchise.

Sounds like he's pulling a Lucas.  He's found his Star Wars cash fountain and he doesn't plan on walking away from it.  He'll just stick his head into it and drink, forever.

Did I mix metaphors or something?  

The only reason Avatar made so much money in the first place is the effects and Ithe multiple unnecessary rereleases and excitement over seeing just a few new shots of plantlife and wildlife. It did have amazing environments that were very pretty to look at. However, just like in gaming, graphics and effects don't make a movie. It's all about telling a good story. Which I feel like Avatar did a terrible job of. It had good actors for the most part (I love Zoe Saldana) but the story was just lacking. It was just Dances With Wolves/Pocahontas with a few small sci-fi details thrown in. Very unimaginative. Anyone could have done that. Maybe not with the same kind of tech as Cameron but still. It doesn't take a genius to say, "Ya know those movies Dances With Wolves and Pocahontas? Lets just make those! Only the Native Americans are giant blue aliens who ride these dragon birds and the entire world is a rain forest filled with glowing plants! What's that? You wanna know more about the story? It's exactly the same as the movies I mentioned. We're just adding a couple sci-fi elements."It did not deserve as much money as it received. I'm not looking forward to hearing about how "vastly superior to all other films" the sequels will be and how they will be the top grossing films in history after having pointless rereleases.

Ugh... The only reason I watch the first one was the 3D (witch was impressive). But if these sequels feature the same bland ass characters we saw in the first one I'd rather have him remake "Piranha 2" (probably more fun anyway).

Maybe he's trying to get funding to make Aquaman?

This is the guy who forced someone wto asphyxiate under water, which they had a phobia of.

My question is how did you not know he was a supervillain before?

I hated Avatar's characters and story but the big cartoon world of Pandora was damned pretty to look at, so I wouldn't really mind. If Cameron decides to make like 8 movies about  Pandora rather than about a bunch of blue Native Americans from space played by Africans, I might see them. Look at it this way: the effects were the only reason for Avatar's success, so why not make the sequel(s) be entirely about the effects, like huge wildlife documentaries exploring the planet. I'd certainly prefer that than more scenes of James Cameron trying to convince us Sam Worthington deserves any of the dollars he has. 

I think Cameron has the rights to Battle Angel Alita sealed in a glass case and mounted on a wall in his office, like Jabba with Han in Carbonite. 

I was expecting this to be about his asteroid mining project with Google...

What an asshole you are.  Seriously, you're going to try to tell a filmmaker how he should handle his business and how he should run his life, according to YOUR principals?  Because you didn't like Avatar.You're a fucking joke.  When you start listening to the multitude of people who think you're a whiny hack, and live your life and run your website by their asinine decrees, THEN you can start telling successful people how they're doing everything wrong.

You know, I've always seen Avatar as a Disney's Pocahontas ripoff. Maybe it's because I've never seen Dances With Wolves, but still... I mean god, bunch of white men land on the shores of a place alien to what they are used to, in search of some very valuable metal.

Male lead then ends up going completely native (literal in one movie, figurative in the other) after falling in love with female from the other side, and he ends up ultimately siding with the opposing side because of it.

Half the fucking reason I went to see Avatar was in anticipation of him doing Alita. The other half was to see the alien world a science nerd could create.

Certainly didn't go to see it for the boring old plot.

Now I had hope when I first read this that he may pass it to another director. I know other directors who have a production company do that. Jackson almost passed Hobbit to Del Toro and Del Toro has fostered projects with other directors.

Yet now I see Cameron has hunkered down with Avatar and even dissolved his whole fucking production company.

Fuck him. I am not seeing any Avataraterthis bullshit. Even if the bastard ever doesany of his far far farsuerior science docs, I might not even bother.Fuck this cock munch.

I've seen Dark Angel, and therefore I never want to see James Cameron within 50 feet of a Battle Angel Alita Movie. This is good news.

If he's giving up on anything non-Avatar-related, can I call dibbs on the Battle Alita franchise?

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I want to see more Avatar. There, I said it.

The ONLY movie I wish Cameron (or someone) would make is the remake of Sink the Bismarck. I would have thought it is right up his alley, adapting technology used to make Titanic, and also, based on his dives to the German battleship.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again - James Cameron is an evil genius who's figured out how to get film studios to bankroll research projects.