While James Cameron will be busy making Avatar sequels for the next few years, it appears he’s already mulling what to do afterwards, as his company Lightstorm Entertainment has rights to the acclaimed 2011 novel The Informationist by Taylor Stevens. The current plan is for Cameron to direct, although Variety reports it’s possible he may ending up simply producing.
Published in October 2011, Stevens’ tale is about Vanessa ‘Michael’ 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 civilisation, and left for dead, she must come face-to-face with the past that she’s tried for so long to forget.
Cameron will produce with Lightstorm partner, Jon Landau. The producers expect to hire a writer to adapt the novel shortly. Here’s what James Cameron had to say about the story, “Taylor Stevens’ 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’m looking forwarding to bringing Vanessa and her world to the big screen.”
This news does make us wonder about Battle Angel, which Cameron has long been developing, and he’d suggested was still on the card after Avatar 2 & 3. It now appears he’s either dropped that or we’ll have to wait even longer.