{"id":288807,"date":"2025-11-29T00:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288807\/"},"modified":"2025-11-29T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T00:24:07","slug":"fire-and-ash-could-be-james-camerons-final-avatar-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/288807\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire And Ash\u2019 could be James Cameron\u2019s final \u2018Avatar\u2019 film"},"content":{"rendered":"

Director James Cameron<\/a> has suggested that the upcoming Avatar: Fire And Ash<\/a> could potentially be the final film in the franchise.<\/p>\n

The Oscar-winning filmmaker made movie history with 2009\u2019s\u00a0Avatar<\/a>, set on an alien world where indigenous beings, The Na\u2019vi, rose up against humans invading their land for resources. The film remains the highest grossing movie of all time at over $2.9billion (\u00a32.1billion), while 2022 sequel Avatar: The Way Of Water<\/a> sits at third with $2.3billion (\u00a31.7billion).<\/p>\n

Despite this success, the filmmaker is aware that the sluggish post-COVID box office and franchise weariness may mean the forthcoming third film doesn\u2019t do as well, and that the fourth and fifth instalments may not go ahead.<\/p>\n

\u201cSequelitis,\u201d Cameron said on The Town podcast. \u201cPeople tend to dismiss sequels. Unless it\u2019s the third Lord of the Rings film and you want to see what happens to everybody, which in my mind this is. This is the culmination of a story arc, but that may not be how the public sees it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

When questioned further about the possibility of Fire And Ash being the last movie, he revealed that the film wraps up the story arcs of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) and Neytiri (Zoe Salda\u00f1a<\/a>), and ends with one unresolved subplot that could be completed in other media. \u201cIf this is where it ends, cool,\u201d Cameron says. \u201cThere is one open thread. I\u2019ll write a book.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked if he would be OK with leaving the franchise behind, he replied: \u201cAbsolutely. I\u2019ve been in Avatar land for 20 years, actually 30 years because I wrote it in \u201995, but I wasn\u2019t working continuously on it for those first ten years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

One line he would draw, however, is handing over complete control of future films to someone else. \u201cAbsolutely not,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, I have choices there. There are levels in which I immerse. I could produce. I don\u2019t think there\u2019d ever be another Avatar movie that I didn\u2019t produce closely.\u201d<\/p>\n

Avatar: Fire And Ash is in cinemas from December 19.<\/p>\n

Recently, Miley Cyrus announced an original song for the movie, inspired by the devastating L.A. fires in January.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Director James Cameron has suggested that the upcoming Avatar: Fire And Ash could potentially be the final film…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-288807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}