{"id":22854,"date":"2012-10-23T16:43:23","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T20:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=22854"},"modified":"2018-11-18T23:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T04:03:18","slug":"cameron-looks-to-the-informationist-after-avatar-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/23\/cameron-looks-to-the-informationist-after-avatar-sequels\/","title":{"rendered":"Cameron Looks To THE INFORMATIONIST After AVATAR Sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Although we know that James Cameron’s immediate future is occupied with work on the two planned sequels to Avatar, the director has just bought a literary property that may be his first project after he completes those films.<\/p>\n

The book is The Informationist<\/em>, a mystery novel by Taylor Stevens. You can read the plot synopsis in the press release below, but I have to admit that it doesn’t sound too much like a project that Cameron would normally be interested in. But then again, maybe a story that doesn’t appear to rely on a large amount of visual effect technology to realize may be just the break he could be looking for.<\/p>\n

Here’s the press release – <\/p>\n

Lightstorm Entertainment has acquired motion picture rights to the acclaimed 2011 novel The Informationist by Taylor Stevens, as vehicle for James Cameron to direct for 20th Century Fox Film. The Informationist will be a project for Cameron after he completes work on the second and third \u201cAvatar\u201d films, which are currently in pre-production.<\/p>\n

Published in October 2011, Stevens\u2019 tale centers on Vanessa \u201cMichael\u201d Munroe, an information specialist, whose work is in-demand by corporations, heads of state, private clients, and anyone else who can pay for her unique brand of expertise. When a Texas oil billionaire hires her to find his daughter who vanished in Africa four years ago. Munroe finds herself back in the lands of her childhood. Betrayed, cut off from civilization, and left for dead, she must come face-to-face with the past that she\u2019s tried for so long to forget.<\/p>\n

Cameron will produce with Lightstorm partner, Jon Landau. The producers expect to hire a writer to adapt the novel shortly.
\nJim Cameron stated: \u201cTaylor Stevens\u2019 Vanessa Michael Munroe is an intriguing and compelling heroine with an agile mind and a thirst for adventure. Equally fascinating for me is her emotional life and her unexpected love story. I\u2019m looking forwarding to bringing Vanessa and her world to the big screen.\u201d<\/p>\n

Added Landau: \u201cThis was an opportunity to continue our relationship with Fox and Jim Gianopulos beyond the \u2018Avatar\u2019 films. We were drawn to this book because of the terrific, compelling narrative and the character, who typifies the strong female protagonists that have inhabited Jim\u2019s work \u2013 in this case Vanessa Munroe is essentially a mix of Lisbeth Salander and Jason Bourne.\u201d<\/p>\n

A second \u201cVanessa Michael Munroe\u201d novel, The Innocent, was published earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Author Taylor Stevens has a background every bit as intriguing as her heroine\u2019s. Born in New York State, and into the Children of God, an apocalyptic religious cult spun from the Jesus Movement of the \u201960s, Stevens was raised in communes across the globe. Separated from her family at age twelve and denied an education beyond sixth grade, she lived on three continents and in a dozen countries before reaching fourteen. In place of schooling, the majority of her adolescence was spent begging on city streets at the behest of cult leaders, or as a worker bee child, caring for the many younger commune children, washing laundry and cooking meals for hundreds at a time. In her twenties, Stevens broke free in order to follow hope and a vague idea of what possibilities lay beyond. She now lives in Texas, and juggles full-time writing with full-time motherhood.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After Pandora, the director looks to travel to Africa to solve a mystery.<\/div>\n

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