The Last Avatar Movies Might Not Be Directed By James Cameron

gamerant.com:

James Cameron is the mastermind behind Avatar and its upcoming sequels, but the visionary filmmaker stated that there are other projects he wants to work on and that he may not return to direct the 4th and 5th Avatar movies.

The first sequel to the 2009 financial juggernaut, entitled Avatar: The Way of Water,was originally announced in 2010. However, the film has been repeatedly delayed over the past 13 years, partly because of the ever-expanding nature of the project. Cameron has already planned and written four Avatar sequels, not just one. However, the intrepid director raised questions about who will lead the project in the future.

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Cameron already filmed Avatar 2 and 3 back-to-back, so these are already set in stone. The question, though, is whether Cameron comes back for Avatar 4 and then 5, both of which he’s already written. Cameron recently spoke to Empire magazine about the Avatar sequels. “The Avatar films themselves are kind of all-consuming,” he said in the interview. “I’ve got some other things I’m developing as well that are exciting. I think eventually over time – I don’t know if that’s after three or after four – I’ll want to pass the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do some other stuff that I’m also interested in. Or maybe not. I don’t know."

Clearly, the director is deeply passionate, verging on obsessed, about the franchise and has spent multiple decades of his life working on the first three films. It’s hard to imagine the notorious perfectionist giving away his precious baby to another director. Then again, he has done this once before. Cameron originally intended to direct Alita: Battle Angel (2019) himself, but after nearly 20 years of delays—mostly