Producer Jon Landau Talks Up James Cameron’s Future

Producer Jon Landau, who has been professionally involved with director James Cameron since  1997’s Titanic, had some words for the French Le Film magazine regarding Cameron’s career post-Avatar.

There seem to be two avenues the director of The Terminator and Aliens will travel down: the first is an adaptation of the manga Battle Angel Alita, the second is an aquatic love story called The Dive.

The future may also hold a sequel to Avatar, if the first film is a success (which, given the hype machine created for it, is probably the least of Cameron and Landau’s expectations): “If the public likes Avatar, it’s a possibility. After all, here we are exploring the surface of the planet Pandora. The interior remains to be seen,” hinted Landau.

Details on The Dive are hazy; the producer simply described it as “a love story in the middle of a dive.” Huh.

However, Battle Angel Alita has plenty of potential. The manga tells the story of an amnesiac female cyborg (Alita) in a dystopian future United States. This is the sort of material that Cameron can wrap his head around and craft into a true work of film science fiction. The real question at hand is how long will we have to wait for these films — especially considering that he’s likely to involve the intricate motion capture process used in Avatar?

James Cameron certainly isn’t the sort of Soderbergh-esque director who can pump out two movies in as many years — whichever one of these projects he chooses to follow Avatar with, you can bet it’ll be a while before we see it.