Director James Cameron made fans wait years before making a sequel for Avatar but it seems he was just busy answering the fans' wish in overdrive!
The multi-awarded director stepped on to the stage during the 20th Century Fox presentation at the CinemaCon on April 14 to announce that, not only is Avatar 2 getting a Christmas 2018 release, but he also decided to make Avatar even more massive than he originally intended it to be.
Apparently, when he sat down to plot out Avatar 2, he realized that he had so many more ideas that he did not want to discard and that is what he has been working on with other screenwriters.
The verdict: simply having a total of four Avatar films is not epic enough and is too limiting for the Academy Award-winning director so he planned a five-film saga beginning with Avatar in 2009 with a follow-up in 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2023.
"We have decided to embark on a truly massive cinematic process... We began to bump up against the limitations for our art form [...] So far, the art I'm seeing is, in pure imagination, really far beyond the first film... It's going to be a true epic saga," he said at the CinemaCon.
Considering that the original 2009 film made a whopping $2.8 billion worldwide and fans have waited for so long for a sequel, there is no doubt that the sequels can also break box office records. After all, Cameron is the one in charge and he is known for breaking box office records. Just think Terminator, Aliens and Titanic, among other great films he released.
Since he seems pumped up about the whole epic saga and he mentions that he has been working with some of the best screenwriters, we suppose it is fine to have great expectations on the sequels. The question now is: just how quickly can they finish plotting out the sequels and begin production to really secure all those dates he mentioned?
Let's just hope he really gets to finish all four sequels and direct or, at the very least, oversee its production.
