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There ’s not one , not two , butthreesequels to James Cameron’sAvatarcurrently in pre - product and while it may take a while before the first of the followup opens in movie theater around the world , fans can follow moreAvatarstories and pick up more about Pandora much sooner .
Today at New York Comic - Con , James Cameron made an appearance ( via picture ) during the Dark Horse Comics panel to announce a recollective - term partnership with the comics newspaper publisher . Building off a human relationship that begin with comics found on the Terminator moves , Dark Horse will be making Avatar comics for the next decade .
The video comes from Cameron ’s Lightstorm Entertainment yield company where they’reworking away onAvatar 2 , 3,and4and the large surprise hem in the announcement is that it did n’t derive sooner . It ’s hard to believe but it was nearly six years ago already when the long - in - developmentAvataropened in theater to fall apart every box office record imaginable .
" I ’m excited that pop now , even before the firing of the first sequel , Dark Horse Comics will be convey you young adventures from Pandora covering the time before , during , and after the event of the original Avatar film .
For the preceding 27 years , Dark Horse has been associated with my motion-picture show The Terminator , Aliens , and The Abyss . Now they ’re working directly with me and our squad at Lightstorm [ Entertainment ] in an unprecedented 10 - year partnership that ’s going to create novel story that will take you profoundly into the world of Avatar . ”
The official crosstie - in comics serve not only to flesh out the mankind of Pandora and the population James Cameron will be explore in the continuation , but will keep the tarradiddle of the first celluloid , presumably bridge over the gap between the first movie and the 2d . Maybe it ’ll serve explain how Sigourney Weaver will return , and " translate " between films .
New York Comic - Con attendees can stop over by the Dark Horse Comics booth to pick up a destitute ( and exclusive ) Avatar screen photographic print with art by Dave Wilkins ( seen above ) .
The intelligence comes on the heels ofHow to take Your Dragonalso mother a graphic novel serial at Dark Horse Comics from the hoi polloi behind the film . It ’ll be co - write by writer / director Dean DeBlois ( How to Train Your Dragon 1 & 2 ) and Richard Hamilton ( Dragons : raceway to the Edge ) with cover charge fine art byHow to Train Your Dragon 2production designer Pierre - Olivier Vincent . And just like withAvatar , the first book ( " How to groom Your Draco : The Serpent ’s heritor " ) - releasing in 2016 - will beak up right from where the second movie ended and continue the story .
Dark Horse also unveil at NYCC " Aliens : Defiance " , a unexampled comic series that launch in April 2016 that meet the opening between the originalAlienand its followup , Aliens .
But it ’s not just Dark Horse jumping into the land of shared universe though - IDW Comics is also launching a multi - yearTransformerscomics event nickname the " Prime Wars Trilogy " that ’ll share the same persistence as upcoming Activision video games and Hasbro toy lines . The strategy is seemingly building off of the drive of Paramount Pictures toblow out their film franchiseby bringing in a large writer ’s room of top manufacture endowment to plan out a bigger , interlink cinematic universe base on the Marvel Studios model .
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Avatar 2is expected to come to theaters in December 2017 , followed byAvatar 3 in late 2018 andAvatar 4 in 2019 .
Sources : Dark Horse Comics , EW , Newsarama , THR
