Avatar 2 Isn't James Cameron's Big Risk - The Other Sequels Are
Betting against Avatar 2 would be unwise, but James Cameron's remaining trio of planned sequels represent a genuine cinematic gamble. When Avatar first descended onto movie theaters in December 2009, James Cameron had a huge amount riding upon his environmentalist sci-fi opus. Directing Titanic might've earned him considerable sway in Hollywood, but as a big-budget original IP that relied heavily upon 3-D technology audiences hadn't yet fully accepted, Avatar could've easily backfired. It didn't, of course, and Cameron became the proud owner of two box office record-breaking behemoths.
Since the Avatar concept had been in gestation even before Cameron'sill-fated voyage across the Atlantic, ideas for a potential sequel were already rattling around inside the director's brain — alongside what to do with all of his incoming cash. When the scale of Avatar's success became apparent, 20th Century Fox couldn't green-light a sequel quick enough, but James Cameron didn't move with quite the same speed, and Avatar 2 has spent 12 years slipping from one calendar to the next, partly due to an extended scripting period of 4 years, and the development of technology required to achieve the director's watery ambitions for Pandora. Cameron had already alluded to a possible Avatar 3 in interviews, but 2016 was the first occasion he publicly revealed plans for four Avatar sequels — a revelation later cemented by Fox announcing a slew of dates for future Na'vi reunions.
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The movie world (indeed, the world) is greatly changed compared to the one that welcomed Avatar in 2009, and all four of James Cameron's sequels carry a sizable risk factor. But while Avatar 2 can
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