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One of the weirdest things in modern cinema is how a movie maker who could seemingly do no wrong, handpick projects, and was “King Of The World” would choose to remain welded to a single franchise for so long. Avatar, and everything with it, has been James Cameron’s world since he completed Titanic and messing about in submarines.
Many movie fans who long for the Cameron of Aliens, Terminator, and True Lies wish he would stop with the eco-Smurfs and get back to work on something else. Well, Cameron says he has no illusions. It is all about the money, and if Avatar stops making it, then he will walk away.
As part of the same interview where he laid into Netflix, with The Town podcast (as reported at Dark Horizons), Cameron said that if it doesn’t pass his hurdle bar, then he won’t go again:
“I have no doubt in my mind that this movie will make money. The question is, does it make enough money to justify doing it again?”
Asked if he really could tear himself away:
“Absolutely… I’ve been in ‘Avatar’ land for 20 years, actually 30 years, because I wrote it in 1995, but I wasn’t working continuously on it for those first ten years. There was a brief flurry of interest in ’95, and then everybody said, ‘You’re out of your mind,’ and I shelved it for ten years. And then we got serious in 2005.”
So this would mean that there is a possible ending built into this next movie? Cameron had said that the first three movies form a trilogy on their own, and the 4th and 5th instalments are a new story set in Pandora’s future.
Would anyone else be allowed to step in and complete the bigger story?
“Absolutely not…Look, I have choices there. There are levels in which I [can] immerse. I don’t think there’d ever be a version where there’s another ‘Avatar’ movie that I didn’t produce closely. But, in terms of it taking over my life, that’s a threshold issue for me.”
Avatar: Fire & Ash opens in cinemas nationwide on December 19th, 2025.
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