‘Avatar 2’ Has Made Enough Money To Ensure More Sequels

James Cameron has an bold plan for the Avatar franchise, partly as a result of James Cameron solely has bold plans for all the things and something in his life. When he agreed to make extra of those motion pictures, it was by no means simply to make one sequel, it was for a whole collection of sequels. And as he deliberate, the variety of sequels saved increasing. Last we heard, he had agency designs on making 4 Avatar sequels — however has already stated he has concepts for at the least two extra movies after that, motion pictures that he most likely wouldn’t even be bodily able to making himself simply due to how lengthy these items take to make and his personal age. (Cameron turns 69 later this 12 months.)

But what they stated: Man plans, and Eywa laughs. Disney isn’t simply going to maintain making Avatar motion pictures eternally as a result of Cameron needs to; these items must make cash. And because the Avatar saga is amongst the most costly creative endeavors ever undertaken, they must make some huge cash to justify their existence.

Cameron has stated publicly that the primary sequel, Avatar: The Way of Water, would wish to make someplace within the neighborhood of $2 billion to make sure profitability and the longevity of the collection. The movie hasn’t fairly gotten to that stage but, but it surely’s not far off both. The movie has already grossed over $1.51 billion worldwide after three weeks of launch, making one of many prime ten highest-grossing motion pictures in historical past. And it appears to be like like issues are going nicely sufficient for Cameron to verify that, sure, extra Avatars are coming.

In an interview with Chris Wallace (through THR), Cameron confirmed The Way of Water is doing nicely sufficient that it “will easily pass our break even in the next few days, so it looks like I can’t wiggle out of this, I’m gonna have to do these other sequels.”

He added:

I’m certain that we’ll have a dialogue quickly with with the highest people at Disney concerning the recreation plan going ahead for Avatar 3, which is already within the can – we’ve already captured and photographed the entire movie so we’re in prolonged post-production to do all that CG magic. And then Avatar 4 and 5 are each written. We even have a few of 4 within the can. We’ve begun a franchise at this level. We’ve begun a saga that may now play out over a number of movies.

“I know what I’m going to be doing the next six or seven years,” Cameron additionally stated.

So strap in, Avatar followers (presumably by attaching your braid to the flying dragon you’re driving on). You’ve bought six or seven extra years of Avatar motion pictures coming.