What's James Cameron up to?

Pigman II

James Cameron has never been the most prolific of directors but it's now 6 years since his last feature film and I was wondering if he's ever going to get round to doing another project? IMDB lists his various theme park/imax/tv projects over the past half-decade but it makes no mention of any features either in production or pre-producation.

Any one know what the deal with Cameron is? Has he had enough of feature films? Iis he just enjoying the quiet life on the profits of Titanic or what?

satchmo

I remember reading somewhere that he's gotten very into deep-sea exploration, and is making some kind of underwater documentaries, or something of the sort. I'm sure he'll be back to directing at some stage, but I think for the moment he's taking some 'Cameron-time' for himself

ObeyGiant

Originally posted by Pigman II
James Cameron has never been the most prolific of directors but it's now 6 years since his last feature film and I was wondering if he's ever going to get round to doing another project? IMDB lists his various theme park/imax/tv projects over the past half-decade but it makes no mention of any features either in production or pre-producation.

Any one know what the deal with Cameron is? Has he had enough of feature films? Iis he just enjoying the quiet life on the profits of Titanic or what?

I wouldn't say he's enjoying the quiet life, he's still up to a lot. He's started focusing on non-directing assignments, such as writing/producing a few TV shows (most notably Dark Angel, which he created). But mainly he's been focusing on a 'labour of love'. He made a documentary about himself, Bill Paxton and a few others exploring the wreck of the Titanic in a submersible. It's pretty entertaining in a Discovery Channel kind of way.

Other than that - he's not up to much. He's trying to get a fifth Alien movie made, with him writing and Ridley Scott directing, but this is very much still in the conceptual stages.

Oh, he's also been popping up a lot recently because of Terminator 3 - I read a quote from him recently saying he hopes it does really well, but then again, he hopes it's really, really bad. He's a little bitter about that whole thing

Shinji

Yeah, most of what he's focused on recently is the Titanic documentary, Secrets of the Abyss. It's a pretty amazing piece of work, although I wish Bill Paxton would just shut the hell up and stop whooping about everything in it...


He's allegedly talking to Ridley Scott about making Alien 5 (Cameron writing, Scott directing)... Also interestingly, he's bought the rights to a number of anime series, most notable Battle Angel Alita, with a view to developing feature length live-action or CG movies based on them.