Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - James Cameron ya kuma kasance mai sha'awar jagorantar sake yin fim (tun aƙalla 1997), amma ya yanke shawarar sadaukar da ƙoƙarinsa ga aikinsa na "Avatar". Har yanzu ya kasance a bude ga ra'ayin samar da wani fasali bisa ga rubutun kansa, kuma a cikin 2007, 20th Century Fox ya sanar da cewa an fara aikin samar da aikin a ƙarshe. Roland Emmerich ya yarda ya jagoranci, amma ya ƙi rubutun da Cameron ya rubuta. An hayar da Marianne da Cormac Wibberley don rubuta sabon rubutun, amma yajin aikin 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America
jinkirta yin fim, kuma Emmerich ya fara aiki a kan "2012" maimakon.