Fire and Ash’ Closes the First ‘Avatar’ Saga

If James Cameron Never Made Another Avatar The movie, he’s happy where it leaves off new things. Speaking to io9 about that new film, Avatar: Fire and AshesThe writer and director of some of the greatest sequels of all time backed away from calling this film a sequel, describing the first three films as one saga and the last two as another. That’s why, if those films don’t get made, he doesn’t mind leaving it at that.

Cameron said, “I think you’ve got to have a little bit of experience with sequels and how you have to perform beyond the audience’s expectations, taking them from the familiar to the new every time.” “I don’t think fire and ashes As a sequel. I think it was the culmination of a saga. I like ‘Saga’ more than ‘Sequel’ because where we were going with the story was in the original architecture of the story. So if you consider it a third act, I think it’s more healthy. Unlike a typical Hollywood sequel, where they make a ton of money from a movie and then say, ‘Oh, crap. We’ll have to run around and get a new script. Maybe it’s not that good, but let’s shoot it and get it out there.’ That’s not what we’re doing here at all. It’s a long game. And I went into it knowing that we were going to play a long game and betting that the audience would come along with us and care about these guys. Because they may be 10 feet tall and blue, but they’re people.

But those people, at least for now, are still going to return to theaters avatar 4 in 2029 and avatar 5 In 2031. In the years since making those announcements, Cameron has gone quiet on whether he thought they would actually occur and now states that, if they did, that is a different part of the story. “It’s its own saga,” he said of films four and five. “There’s a beginning, a middle and an end that goes on in these two movies. They’re vaporware right now.”

However, his actors hope they are much more than that. “I really hope we get to make four and five, because it’s such a mind-bending, crazy story that needs to be told,” Jack Champion, who plays Spider, told io9. “It goes to the next level,” said Trinity Bliss, who plays Tuk.

Avatar: Fire and Ashes opens on December 19th, and you have to imagine that the fate of those sequels depends on whether or not people like it and come out to see it. We will find out soon.

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