By FilmInk Staff
Aussie mainstay and multi-hyphenate extraordinaire Brendan Cowell – actor (Game Of Thrones, Noise), screenwriter (Love My Way, The Slap, Ruben Guthrie, Ten Empty), playwright (Rabbit), director (Ruben Guthrie) and Cronulla Sharks fan (and one-time FilmInk Awards host!!) – has just been announced to take on a new role in James Cameron’s epic series of four Avatar sequels. That’s right, James Cameron is making four sequels to his 2009 sci-fi blockbuster, Avatar, with release dates of, hold your breath, December 17, 2020, December 16, 2021, December 19, 2024 and December 18, 2025. Mark off your calendars now.
But if you’re getting excited about the prospect of seeing Brendan Cowell sporting the ol’ Na’vi blue-face, you’re gonna have to cool your jets. Brendan will in fact be playing the very human-sounding Mick Scoresby, the captain of a private sector large-scale marine hunting vessel on the films’ alien planet of Pandora. And with a name like Mick Scoresby, we might be willing to lay a small wager that Brendan Cowell could very well be playing an Aussie. The whole Aussie-in-space thing worked beautifully for Ben Mendelsohn in Captain Marvel, so let’s hope that James Cameron continues the burgeoning intergalactic antipodean theme with Avatars 2 through 5. Brendan Cowell will begin filming live action in New Zealand in May. “Jim and I are thrilled to welcome Brendan to the Avatar family and know that he will bring a great depth to the character of Mick Scoresby,” says producer, Jon Landau.
