James Cameron thinks Avatar: Fire and Ash is more of a \u201cculmination of a saga\u201d than a sequel.<\/p>\n
The upcoming blockbuster will be the third entry in the 71-year-old director\u2019s iconic sci-fi franchise, and while fourth and fifth instalments are planned, Cameron believes Fire and Ash will be a fitting conclusion to the current story of Avatar.<\/p>\n
Speaking with io9, The Terminator filmmaker said: \u201cI don\u2019t think of Fire and Ash as a sequel. I think it was a culmination of a saga.<\/p>\n
\u201cI like \u2018saga\u2019 better than \u2018sequel\u2019 because a lot of where we were going with the story was in the original architecture of the story. So if you think of this as the third act, I think that\u2019s healthier.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs opposed to a typical Hollywood sequel, where they make a bunch of money with a movie and then they\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, c***. We\u2019ve got to scramble around and get a new script. Maybe it\u2019s not so good, but let\u2019s just shoot it and get it out there.\u2019 That\u2019s not what we\u2019re doing here at all.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a long game. And I went into it knowing that we\u2019d be playing a long game and betting that the audience would come along with us and care about these people.<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause they may be 10 feet tall and blue, but they\u2019re people.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cameron noted the fourth and fifth Avatar movies would be their own saga, describing them as \u201cvaporware\u201d – potentially due to the extensive amount of work that needs to be done on the films.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cIt\u2019s its own saga. It\u2019s got a beginning and a middle and an end that plays out across these two films. They\u2019re vaporware right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jack Champion – who plays Miles \u2018Spider\u2019 Socorro in Fire and Ash – teased the fourth and fifth Avatar movies would feature a \u201cmind-bending, crazy story\u201d.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cI really hope that we get to make four and five, because it\u2019s such a mind-bending, crazy story that I feel has to be told.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Tuk actress Trinity Bliss added the next instalments would take Avatar \u201cto the next level\u201d.<\/p>\n
Avatar: Fire and Ash – which hits cinemas on December 19, 2025 – follows Na’vi Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and their family as they face a fierce new threat from the fire\u2011wielding \u2018Ash People\u2019 tribe led by Varang (Oona Chaplin), reigniting conflict on a turbulent Pandora.<\/p>\n
As grief and old enemies resurface, alliances with the Metkayina clan will test their strength, faith, and survival.<\/p>\n
The film also stars Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, Stephen Lang as Miles Quaritch and Kate Winslet as Ronal.<\/p>\n
Cameron recently said he was prepared to end the Avatar franchise if Fire and Ash underperforms at the box office.<\/p>\n
During an appearance on The Town with Matt Belloni podcast, the Titanic director said: \u201cSequelitis. People tend to dismiss sequels. Unless it’s the third Lord of the Rings film and you want to see what happens to everybody, which in my mind this is.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is the culmination of a story arc, but that may not be how the public sees it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Cameron thinks Avatar: Fire and Ash is more of a \u201cculmination of a saga\u201d than a sequel.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2476,3109,93,3113,61,3107,60,270,43,3110,3108,3111,3112,268],"class_list":["post-172716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-breaking-news","tag-daily-news","tag-entertainment","tag-global-news","tag-ie","tag-inkl","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-news-app","tag-news-headlines","tag-news-today","tag-today-news","tag-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}