Zoe Saldana is doing the press rounds for Star Trek into Darkness and stopped by “The Jonathan Ross Show” (via) where she was, inevitably, asked about Avatar 2 and Avatar 3, which are expected to take audiences back to Pandora beginning in late 2015.
Saldana confirmed expectations that the two films would shoot at the same time saying, “They’re doing a part two and a part three and they’re probably going to shoot it at the same time. Because if we just do two and then wait, I’ll probably be 45 or 50 [years old] by the time we get to part three.”
About a month ago the films were briefly the topic of conversation once again when producer Jon Landau addressed the progress of the two films saying, “We have kept a team of digital artists on from Avatar in order to test how we can create performance capture underwater. We could simulate water [in computer graphics], but we can’t simulate the actor’s experience, so we are going to capture performance in a tank.”
James Cameron is still working on the scripts and there has yet to be a date announced as to when we should expect production to begin, but you better believe it will be a big deal once it does.
In other news, I caught a few minutes of Drumline this weekend in which Saldana co-stars. That is all.
