James Cameron Says Avatar 3 Is a Satisfying End If 4 and 5 Don’t Happen

James Cameron ought to play the lottery as a result of his large gambles at all times repay. Titanic? Nailed it. Avatar? Home run. But after that he wager even greater, spending 10 years crafting 4 Avatar sequels with the hope that audiences would need to see all of them.

The first sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, is now in theaters and the way audiences react to will probably be an enormous consider what number of of these subsequent sequels really occur. Part three, scheduled for launch in December 2024, is all however assured. But components 4 and 5, which might be out in 2026 and 2028 respectively, are removed from assured. So does that imply, if these motion pictures don’t occur, we’ll perpetually simply be questioning about what would’ve occurred subsequent? Not in any respect, says Cameron.

In a brand new interview, the author/director explains that with the best way he’s structured the 5 movies, if the third movie did find yourself because the final one, the ending can be satisfying as a result of the ultimate two motion pictures are fully completely different.

“I’ve been thinking about this a lot,” Cameron advised Deadline. “[Ending with Avatar 3] is definitely doable, and it would be satisfying. Wouldn’t be as satisfying to me because what happens is, after [Avatar 3], the story goes in a really unexpected direction and three is a natural stopping point. We enter a whole new problem and then that whole problem absorbs Movie 4 and Movie 5. So it’s a natural stopping point. But I don’t like to think in terms of failure, I like to think in terms of success.”

Cameron, after all, wouldn’t say what that complete new downside is. But in an interview with Collider he teased that the studio govt who learn the half 4 script reacted with simply two phrases: “Holy fuck.” So, that’s fairly attractive. Cameron is a realist although. He is aware of 2022 is a distinct world than 2009 and isn’t positive individuals will flip up for The Way of Water as they did the unique. But he additionally says, it gained’t be a fast resolution.

“I’m just going to not think about it too much for the next three weeks because I think it’ll be the third weekend of release that will tell us what our trajectory is,” the director mentioned. “If we’re shallow or we run long, we’ll make more money. If we fall off quicker, it could be just market forces, it could be attention span, it could be covid. There’s all sorts of things that I can’t predict right now.”

We’ll predict one thing although. Avatar: The Way of Water goes to do fairly nicely. It’s now in theaters.

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