Cameron Plans AVATAR Prequel Novel
by: the Moleman source: MTV News
“This isn’t a novelisation. Jim wants to write a novel that is a big, epic story that fills in a lot of things.” says producer, Jon LandauAccording to Landau,
“It would be something that would lead up to telling the story of the movie, but it would go into much more depth about all the stories that we didn’t have time to deal with – like the schoolhouse and Sigourney [Weaver's character] teaching at the schoolhouse; Jake on Earth and his backstory and how he came here; [the death of] Tommy, Jake’s brother; and Colonel Quaritch, how he ended up there and all that.”
He adds that some of the scenes from “Avatar” that ended up on the cutting room floor might be resurrected for either the book or other forms of publishing media (e.g. comics).
“There might be opportunities in publishing to tell some of the backstory, tell some of the Earth war stories, what went on in Jake’s life before the movie. We’d have that lead up to the sequel that might take place on Pandora several years after our movie closed.”
I personally can only hope they put it in graphic novel form cause Lord knows I can’t stand reading a normal book. I’m a lazy nerd that way.