Even though AVATAR is the biggest money-maker in film history, James Cameron isn’t content to just hope lightning strikes twice – make that three times – when it comes to making the two planned sequels. Instead of utilizing the same philosophy that made the first one such a hit, Cameron has a plan to ensure AVATAR 2’s viewing experience is even more enjoyable… starting with cutting down on the motion sickness.
“For ‘Avatar 2,’ what I’m most interested in is getting theaters to up their light level… And we want to shoot the movie at 48 or maybe even 60 frames a second, and display it at that speed, which will eliminate a lot of the motion artifacts that I think are causing some people problems.”
Those “problems” Cameron mentions have to do with some people feeling ill during the movie; indeed it seems to be a problem with a lot of 3D flicks. Cameron, naturally, has the answer.
“People talk about feeling sick or something like that, and I think it’s because the image is strobing… That’s a function of the 24 frame frame rate, which has actually got nothing to do with 3D. It’s just made more apparent because the 3D is otherwise such an enhanced, realistic image, that all of a sudden you’re aware of this funky strobing which you weren’t aware of.”
Note to theater chains: The King of the World wants you to raise your light levels. Better get on that before Christmas 2014, when AVATAR 2 is scheduled to be released.
AVATAR’s Zoe Saldana
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