It has officially been ten years since the first
Avatar film was released and it feels like we're no closer to a sequel now than we were back then - which is odd considering the massive amount of money it made at the box office and just how long it took for it to be dethroned (thanks,
Avengers: Endgame).
In a recent interview with Variety, celebrated director James Cameron opened up on the reason we haven't seen a new
Avatar film yet despite claims that one has been in the works for years.
“People don’t really understand the scope and complexity of the process. It’s like making two and a half big animated films. A typical big animated film takes about four years, so, if you do the math on that, we’re kind of right on schedule for December 2021.”
Cameron goes into more detail about the process for the franchise as a whole and how the team has approached it over the past decade to prepare for what's next.
“From 2013 until now we’ve mostly designed the whole world across four new movies. We’ve written, finished scripts for all four of those films. We’ve cast them, and we’ve [performance] captured movie two, movie three, and the first part of movie four. We’re mostly done with the live-action. I’ve got a couple months in New Zealand in spring, so we’re kind of on track with what we set out to do.”
What do you think of these comments? With films as beautiful as these it's certainly likely to take a lot of time, but it has been an entire decade - is the director just making excuses?
Avatar 2 might not be scheduled to release until 2021 but you can view the trailer for the first one below!
A paraplegic marine dispatched to the moon Pandora on a unique mission becomes torn between following his orders and protecting the world he feels is his home.
Avatar is now available to stream on Disney+!