14 DAY TRIAL // Hype around the planned (and later confirmed) “Avatar” sequels has died down after the initial frenzy that started right with the 2009 release of the original. Today, no one knows exactly what Cameron is up to with these projects, but that’s not to say he’s idling away.
Cameron himself is making sure you don’t get the wrong impression, revealing a very important piece of news in an interview cited by Contact Music: Sigourney Weaver will be back.
If you saw the original, you already know that Weaver’s character, Dr. Grace Augustine, dies at the end and that, despite all efforts, they can’t move her consciousness into the Avatar before her human body expires.
So, Cameron is saying, he’s come up with a whole different character, just so Weaver can work by his side again. The two share a long history, having first worked together on the 1985 “Alien.”
“Her character of Grace Augustine, as fans know, died in the first movie, so she's playing a different and in many ways more challenging character in the upcoming films. We're both looking forward to this new creative challenge, the latest chapter in our long and continuing collaboration,” the famous director says.
Fans probably remember that Weaver dropped some hints on this topic a while back. At the time, because she seemed so convinced she was coming back, one of the theories said that Dr. Augustine’s consciousness was still in the tree Eywa, and that it would be transplanted from there to another Avatar body. It could still happen.