It was recently revealed James Cameron had brought on board screenwriters Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno to write the screenplays for Avatar 2, 3 and 4, but it wasn’t clear who was writing which screenplay or if it was one massive collaboration. Today, in an article in the New York Times he get confirmation of who will be credited for what:
The first sequel, [Jon Landau, James Cameron’s business partner] confirmed, will be written by Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, a husband-and-wife team known for their work on Rise of the Planet of the Apes. The second, he said, will come from Josh Friedman, who worked with Lightstorm on the television series “Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.” The third is being written by Shane Salerno, who also worked previously with Mr. Cameron, and who was already blocking out his Avatar script while promoting the release of his documentary Salinger last year.
Expectation is for Avatar 2 to arrive December 2016 with the following two sequels arriving one year after the last. All three films will be shot back-to-back-to-back, most likely beginning this fall and in terms of the plot, Landau said he expected all the films to follow the principal characters, played by Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana. “It’s the story of their life together,” he said.
