AMC Working with James Cameron on a Science Fiction Documentary Series
From The Terminator to Aliens, to Avatar, James Cameron has left an indelible mark on the science fiction genre, and now he's going to speak to that in a documentary series for AMC titled James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction. AMC announced the collaboration at the TCA press tour. The series will chronicle the origins of sci-fi from being a cult genre to a pop culture phenomenon.
THR said the series will “introduce one of the ‘big questions’ that humankind has contemplated throughout the ages and reach back into sci-fi’s past to better understand how our favorite films, TV shows, books and video games were born and where the genre — and our species — might be going in the future.”
“When I was a kid, I basically read any book with a spaceship on the cover and I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey many, many times. The movie inspired me to become a filmmaker. I liked the special effects, but I really loved the ideas and the questions behind them: How will the world end? Will technology destroy us? What does it mean to be human?" said Cameron.
"These are subjects sci-fi has never been afraid to tackle. With this series, we are going back to the origins of sci-fi, following the DNA of these ideas back to the source. Without Jules Verne and H.G. Wells, there wouldn’t have been Ray Bradbury or Robert A. Heinlein, and without them, there wouldn’t be [George] Lucas, [Steven] Spielberg, Ridley Scott or me. As a filmmaker who specializes in science fiction, I’m interested in exploring the struggles and the triumphs that brought these incredible stories to life and seeing how art imitates life, as well as how science fiction imitates and sometimes informs science.”
The series will come some time in 2018, though it's sure to land before Avatar 2.
Source: Slashfilm
