James Cameron speaks

Director James Cameron recently spoke to the Sunday Times about life after Titanic, offering details on the new Collector's Edition DVD (featuring almost an hour of never-before-seen footage, and extensive documentary material), while also dropping hints about his long-awaited next project(s)...

“I’m directing two movies back-to-back and I’ve got two more lined up after that,” he says. “Two movies using the same techniques, the same 3-D digital-camera system, the same virtual production studio. They’re big projects.” The first will come out in the summer of 2007, the second in the summer of 2009. One is Battle Angel, an epic adaptation of a 12-part Japanese manga series about a 14-year-old amnesiac female cyborg on a quest to discover her identity while battling evil, set in the 26th century. The other, which he refuses to talk about at this stage, may be what is known in Cameron circles as Project 880. (He will not be making Terminator 4, and he will not be making True Lies 2, as has been rumoured.) The combined budgets for the two films — which will use the proprietary, high-definition 3-D digital technology he has developed — could top half-a-billion dollars.