When we talk about Avatar, we directly relate the film to the director james cameronbut this could change, since he may not direct the fourth and fifth films in the franchise, that is, assuming those films materialize and are recorded, and everything seems to be that it is because Cameron returned to direct Avatar: The Way of Water and its untitled sequel and compared the making of the Avatar sequels to adapting The Lord of the Rings but without the source material.
And it is that, according to statements that the director gave to Empire, Cameron says he admits that he feels how slow it can be to make these films, given that, in the past, Cameron delivered projects, such as when he gave Alita: Battle Angel to Robert Rodríguez could consider doing the same with Avatar 4 and 5, the projects that are still on the table so far.
“The Avatar movies themselves are all-consuming. I’m also developing other things that are exciting. I think eventually, I don’t know if after three or four, I’ll want to hand over the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do other things that interest me as well. Or maybe not. I don’t know.”
Now the movies Avatar They are still personal projects for Cameron, to which he comments, the science fiction story contains many of his own points of view: “Everything I need to say about family, sustainability, the weather, the natural world, the issues that are important to me in real life and in my film life, I can say on this canvas.”
“I got more excited as it went on. Movie four is a corker. It’s a motherfucker. I actually hope I can do it. But it depends on market forces. The third one is in the can, so it’s going to come out anyway.” I really hope we can do four and five because it’s a great story, ultimately.”
Cameron has spoken before about these “market forces” as he believes they will determine the fate of the Avatar series: “The big problem is: Are we going to make any fucking money?” Cameron said in December 2021. “Big, expensive movies have to make a lot of money. We’re in a new post-COVID, post-broadcast world. Maybe see those numbers [de taquilla] never see each other again. Who knows? It’s all one big roll of the dice.”