{"id":44181,"date":"2025-07-29T03:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44181\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T03:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T03:40:08","slug":"james-cameron-teases-expanding-avatar-into-animated-anthology-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/44181\/","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Teases Expanding ‘Avatar’ Into Animated Anthology Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe world of the Na\u2019vi might be expanding into the small screen, per director James Cameron<\/a>, who recently opened up about his plans to take the franchise to animated territory, with an anthology series and possibly a feature.<\/p>\n

\n\tSpeaking to Empire<\/a> ahead of the Dec. 19 release of the much-anticipated Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/a>, the three-time Oscar winner discussed how Avatar<\/a> \u2014 already expanded into video games and a theme park at Walt Disney World \u2014 could explore further backstory, an idea he\u2019s already broached with Disney.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI said, \u2018Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that\u2019s essentially in the world, but stories that you wouldn\u2019t have expected from that world,’\u201d the Titanic helmer explained. \u201cThere might even be an animated feature in there \u2014 it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCameron cited other examples of animated adaptations that drew from existing films, such as The Matrix: \u201cA good early example is\u00a0The Animatrix, where they went afield in the\u00a0Matrix\u00a0world. These are all great examples for how we can add texture and baroque detail to the world of\u00a0Avatar.\u201d As such, these projects could offer \u201cbackstory on characters and tangential stuff that happened off-camera within the movies. Who first landed on Pandora? The first expedition. You could go anywhere you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, considering the followup to 2022\u2019s gargantuan The Way of Water has been taking up a significant chunk of the filmmaker\u2019s time, Cameron said the animated entries are still in early stages of development.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe haven\u2019t done much with that yet,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing, and I\u2019ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tA first trailer for Fire and Ash dropped last week<\/a>, after debuting on silver screens ahead of The Fantastic Four: First Steps. Combined, the\u00a0Avatar\u00a0movies have grossed $5.24 billion, with the first 2009 entry remaining the highest-grossing movie ever with $2.92 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world of the Na\u2019vi might be expanding into the small screen, per director James Cameron, who recently…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[35154,34531,88,20380,206],"class_list":["post-44181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-avatar","tag-avatar-fire-and-ash","tag-entertainment","tag-james-cameron","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}