James Cameron has an bold plan for the Avatar franchise, partly as a result of James Cameron solely has bold plans for every little thing and something in his life. When he agreed to make extra of those films, it was by no means simply to make one sequel, it was for a whole sequence of sequels. And as he deliberate, the variety of sequels stored increasing. Final we heard, he had agency designs on making 4 Avatar sequels — however has already mentioned he has concepts for at the very least two extra movies after that, films that he most likely wouldn’t even be bodily able to making himself simply due to how lengthy this stuff take to make and his personal age. (Cameron turns 69 later this 12 months.)
However what they mentioned: Man plans, and Eywa laughs. Disney isn’t simply going to maintain making Avatar films ceaselessly as a result of Cameron desires to; this stuff need to earn money. And for the reason that Avatar saga is amongst the most costly inventive endeavors ever undertaken, they need to make some huge cash to justify their existence.
Cameron has mentioned publicly that the primary sequel, Avatar: The Means of Water, would wish to make someplace within the neighborhood of $2 billion to make sure profitability and the longevity of the sequence. The movie hasn’t fairly gotten to that stage but, but it surely’s not far off both. The movie has already grossed over $1.51 billion worldwide after three weeks of launch, making one of many high ten highest-grossing films in historical past. And it seems like issues are going effectively sufficient for Cameron to substantiate that, sure, extra Avatars are coming.
In an interview with Chris Wallace (through THR), Cameron confirmed The Means of Water is doing effectively sufficient that it “will simply cross our break even within the subsequent few days, so it seems like I can’t wiggle out of this, I’m gonna need to do these different sequels.”
He added:
I’m certain that we’ll have a dialogue quickly with with the highest of us at Disney in regards to the recreation plan going ahead for Avatar 3, which is already within the can – we’ve already captured and photographed the entire movie so we’re in prolonged post-production to do all that CG magic. After which Avatar 4 and 5 are each written. We even have a few of 4 within the can. We’ve begun a franchise at this level. We’ve begun a saga that may now play out over a number of movies.
“I do know what I’m going to be doing the following six or seven years,” Cameron additionally mentioned.
So strap in, Avatar followers (presumably by attaching your braid to the flying dragon you’re using on). You’ve bought six or seven extra years of Avatar films coming.
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