James Cameron

And it becomes a bit of a dialogue.

So I remember the time I was sitting there in my writing office and I said, well, what if there was a kid

that was, you know, a kid that was born on the base.

And what if he was out in the forest with his Navi little kid friends and his mask got messed up and, you know, they had to save him.

He was running out of air and it became a whole thing.

And so I imagined this whole thing about a race against time to get him back to the base.

And I thought, okay, that's a pretty good story.

Now, what if that kid was Korich's son?

And then I wrote, literally wrote, nah.

Yeah.

Nobody would believe that.

And then I'm going on writing more notes.

And about three or four pages later, it's like, yeah, but wait a minute.

It would be really cool.

And then I just started to riff on that.

And then it became, all right, well, what if he was Quaritch's son?

And the human Quaritch dies in the first film.

Now he's orphaned.

His mother maybe dies as well if she was part of the military group that Jake was opposed to.

And now he's an orphan and he's being raised on Pandora and he's got Navi friends.