新闻网址：
http://bit.ly/1S0uL4Z
For anyone who was excited to see James Cameron‘s long-gestating Avatar 2
take on Star Wars: Episode VIII for a Christmas box office battle royale, we
have some bad news. Avatar 2 will not be ready to meet the Christmas 2017
release that was staked out for the sequel. Though the release date was never
officially claimed by 20th Century Fox, Cameron himself said they were
targeting the holiday release window just last month. But now we have no idea
when the sequel might hit the big screen.
原本预计要于2017年圣诞节正面对决的两部大片，阿凡达2和星战8，可能没机会成真了，
20世纪大众对阿凡达2的正式上映日期从未松口，虽然大导演本人上个月才透露他们目标
是在圣诞节档期，但现在看来又是遥遥无期。
The Wrap has the news of Avatar 2 delayed, though at this point we’re not
surprised. For the past few years Avatar 2 has been rumored for 2014, 2015,
2016 and most recently 2017. But when Cameron did mention the previous
Christmas 2017 target, he added that meeting that date wasn’t as important
as “the fact that when we get all three films done, we drop them a year
apart.”
对大多数的影迷来说听到阿凡达2再度延迟的消息并不意外，毕竟可能上映的日期已经
从2014年->2015年->2016年，传到最近的2017年，但当大导演谈到视2017年圣诞节为目
标时他也提到，把这3部曲完成的重要性还是大于上映档期。
There was already speculation that Avatar 2 wasn’t going to meet the
estimated release when Star Wars: Episode VIII moved to December 15th, 2017,
a full seven months after the previously planned May 2017 release date.
Disney clearly knew they weren’t going to have any major competition at the
box office and also wanted that Christmas money for their merchandise
release. Plus, there’s no way Disney would willingly take on Avatar 2 with
the chance of having a smaller IMAX screen count, especially when there’s an
Avatar installment planned for their theme parks.
之前就有人揣测，星战8之所以将预计的上映日期从2017年的5月延到2017年的12月是早
就知道阿凡达2无法赶上这个档期，也就是这段期间不会有任何强大的竞争对手，所以
要伴随着周边商品及过节气氛好好地赚一笔。
So perhaps now that Star Wars: Episode VIII has laid claim to December for at
least the next couple years, 20th Century Fox will take Avatar 2 to the
summer of 2018 with the third and fourth movies following in 2019 and 2020.
As of now Fox isn’t making any new date estimates, and it’s probably best
to just let Cameron make the movies and then figure out when to release them
when they’re done.
所以当星战系列确定攻占接下来几年的12月档期，20世纪大众会将阿凡达2放在2018年的
暑假，并紧接2019年和2020年推出阿凡达3和阿凡达4，不过最好还是让大导演本人好好
完成这几部电影的时间再来谈上映日期也不迟。
As of now, all we know about Avatar 2 is that Sam Worthington and Zoe Saldana
are reprising their lead roles, underwater performance capture technology
will be used, and there’s a chance that Sigourney Weaver might be back in
some capacity. Otherwise, any story details are being kept under tight wraps.
阿凡达2目前所释出的情报是还是会由原先的男女主角领衔主演，海底动态补捉技术将会
应用在这部电影中，异形女王也有出场机会，除此之外，其他细节尚未向外界公布。
In the end, the fact that it’s taking this long for Avatar 2 to come to
fruition isn’t all that surprising. James Cameron first announced Avatar as
a future project of his in 1996, and audiences didn’t get to see it until
2009. Hopefully fans won’t have to wait 13 years for Avatar 2, though at
this point they’ve already waited a little over six, so what’s another
seven years?
总结来说，大家对阿凡达2耗费这么长的时间完成并不太意外，大导演说阿凡达这部
电影是他在1996年的概念，而观众一直要等到13年后的2009年才能够观赏，虽然截至
目前为止，阿凡达2已经等超过6年了，不过还是希望大导不要再凑满13年才让影迷们
能看到这部大作。