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director avatar James Cameron He has a Plan B if the upcoming film in the franchise is not a hit.
before the release of third installment, Avatar: Fire and AshesCameron appeared in Matt Belloni City Podcast to talk about their contingency plan if the film doesn’t earn enough at the box office that Disney can move forward with a fourth and fifth films.
cameroon Admitted that he has been “in Avatar land” for 30 years. And he said he understands the challenges of making a film with a huge budget, although he did not reveal whether fire and ashes Cost of making.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that this movie will make money. The question is, does it make enough money to justify doing it again?” He said, before adding: “If it ends there, so be it.”
But there is one plot which the third film fails to tie up at all. Recognizing this, cameroon Said: “There’s an open thread there. I’ll write a book!”
When Cameron was asked if the reins would be handed over to someone else if the franchise were to continue, he also drew a line in the sand.
He said, “I don’t think there will be a version where there’s another Avatar film that I didn’t produce closely.”
The first Avatar film, released in 2009, remains the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing nearly $3 billion. second film, Avatar: Path of Water, It grossed $2.3 billion when it was released in 2022.
In the first and second parts of the franchise, audiences were introduced to two different Na’vi clans, the Omatikaya and the Metka’ina.
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in both Avatar And Avatar: The Path of WaterThe Omatikaya and Metkayina clans are peaceful tribes and only retaliate when their lands are threatened by humans. However, Cameron had previously revealed that the next film will see the fiercer side of these tribes, represented by the ‘Ash people.’
He told about France 20 minutes Earlier this year: “I want to show the Na’vi from another angle because, until now, I’ve only shown their good sides.”
At a special screening in April, Cameron said that the main characters in the new film have been “twisted”, with Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) telling Neytiri (Zoe Saldana): “We can’t live like this – we can’t live with this hatred.”
Cameron also said that he “hopes this film can give strength to theater owners as we’re still struggling after the pandemic and the one-two punch of streaming.”
Two more Avatar films are planned after this fire and ashesWhich will be released in December 2029 and December 2031 respectively.
Avatar: Fire and Ashes Will be released in theaters on 19th December.