March 2004: Speaking at a Q&A session in London, Cameron says his next film is underway and although he won’t say what it was, he does say it is not True Lies 2 or Ramses of the Damned or Fathom, another deep-sea adventure he had talked about making, or, for that matter, Avatar. Rae Sanchini, a chief excecutive at Lightstorm says theyre aiming for a Jan 05 start date.
November 2004: While promoting another underwater 3-D documentary, Aliens of the Deep, Cameron tells reporters his next film will be a science fiction film called Battle Angel, and that he will start shooting in June of 05.
December 2004: Entertainment Weekly reports that Cameron will direct a film called The Dive. (Ethan Miller / Getty Images)
August 2005: More details about Battle Angel surface--that the film will use motion capture technology, will be shot in 3-D and will be a love story between a human man and female cyborg.
2005-06: Cameron plays himself on HBOs Entourage, where he casts the series star in a big screen version of Aquaman.
July 2006: The director tells the Hollywood Reporter he is targeting a summer 2008 release for his next project which he had referred to covertly as Project 880 but publicly acknowledges is Avatar, a film he started writing 11 years ago. It is about a paraplegic war veteran who is brought to another planet inhabited by a humanoid race at odds with Earths citizens. (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images)
