Tuesday 5 July 2022 03:24 AM James Cameron reveals he may not direct Avatar 3 and 4 trends now
While fans continue to wait for the highly-anticipated Avatar: The Way of Water, director James Cameron is opening up on the franchise... which he may be leaving as director.
Cameron, 67, released Avatar in 2009, which broke the domestic ($760.5 million) and global ($2.847 billion) box office records, and while he originally promised a trilogy, he ultimately planned on four more sequels.
The filmmaker opened up about the franchise in a wide-ranging interview with Empire, where he admitted he might not direct Avatar 4 and Avatar 5... and confirmed Avatar 2 will be quite long... while advocating for bathroom breaks.
Leaving: While fans continue to wait for the highly-anticipated Avatar: The Way of Water, director James Cameron is opening up on the franchise... which he may be leaving as director
Box office: Cameron, 67, released Avatar in 2009, which broke the domestic ($760.5 million) and global ($2.847 billion) box office records, and while he originally promised a trilogy, he ultimately planned on four more sequels
After several years of development, Cameron shot both Avatar: The Way of Water and Avatar 3 back-to-back, with both performance capture and live-action photography happening on and off between August 2017 and September 2020.
Throughout the sequels' development, it was always believed that Cameron would be at the helm for all four sequels, though it seems that may not be the case anymore.
'The Avatar films themselves are kind of all-consuming. I’ve got some other things I’m developing as well that are exciting,' Cameron teased.
Other things: 'The Avatar films themselves are kind of all-consuming. I’ve got some other things I’m developing as well that are exciting,' Cameron teased
'I think eventually over time – I don’t know if that’s after three or after four – I’ll want to pass the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do some other stuff that I’m also interested in. Or maybe not. I don’t know,' he admitted.
Since both Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 were filmed back-to-back, the plan for Avatar 4 and Avatar 5 was to film them back-to-back as well.
If he does hand the last two films off to
