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"Avatar producer Jon Landau has revealed that James Cameron is working on a prequel novel to his record-breaking blockbuster. Speaking to MTV, Landau said that the book would flesh out lead character Jake Sully&amp;#039;s backstory on Earth before he journeys to Pandora. &amp;quot;It would be something that would lead up to telling the story of the movie, but it would go into much more depth about all the stories that we didn&amp;#039;t have time to deal with - like the schoolhouse and Sigourney [Weaver&amp;#039;s character] teaching at the schoolhouse; Jake on Earth and his backstory and how he came here; [the death of] Tommy, Jake&amp;#039;s brother; and Colonel Quaritch, how he ended up there and all that,&amp;quot; he said. Cameron earlier told DS that he had to cut down his script from 220 pages before he could start production on Avatar. &amp;quot;The story was straightened out without as many secondary excursions. All that stuff... I mean really it was quite novelistic. It was like trying to adapt a novel,&amp;quot; he explained. &amp;quot;And I found that out the hard way, because when I adapt one of my treatments, I just start writing and I start turning it into scene form. And then I see where I wind up. Well, I wound up at 220 pages. So it&amp;#039;s kind of, &amp;#039;What half of that can you live without?&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Click here to read our recent interview with James Cameron "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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