MUMBAI: Days before his film Avatar is set for a worldwide special edition re-release on 27 August, James Cameron has already revealed his plans for a sequel.

The next instalment of the Avatar franchise will explore Pandora’s Oceans. Revealing this to the media, Cameron said that his fictional planet’s aquatic life was equally rich and “diverse and crazy and imaginative” as its colourful land-based equivalent.

According to Cameron, many of the scenes would actually require underwater filming. “I think what we should do there - because we’ll have to have characters that are in and under the water - is that we should actually capture them underwater. It’s not the same as going diving, but I like to keep my diving, which I do for pleasure, separate from work,” Cameron averred.