A Cameron timeline
For the past 10 years James Cameron fans have been desperate for a new feature film from the director. Conflicting information on what this project would be has been flying around the Internet for years, mostly because it seems the director could not make up his mind. Apparently Cameron has chosen to make the science fiction film “Avatar,” but fans would be wise to wait until the director has stepped behind the camera before they believe anything. Cameron has a history of changing his mind.
March 1998: Titanic wins 11 Oscars, including Camerons for best director. Cameron declares himself King of the World and divorces his 4th wife. (Kirk McKoy / LAT)
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)
