If Disney chooses to not transfer ahead with Avatar 4 and 5, director James Cameron has a contingency plan to wrap up the story so audiences should not left hanging after the latest launch of Avatar: Fireplace and Ash.
After 2009’s Avatar grew to become the highest-grossing film of all time, Cameron dove again into the world of Pandora with The Method of Water in 2022 and Fireplace and Ash in 2025, with plans for 2 extra movies sooner or later.
Throughout an interview with Leisure Weekly, Cameron revealed that if the fourth and fifth Avatar movies do not get made, he plans to carry a press convention and “inform you what we’re gonna do.”
“This is what it’s. If we do not get to make 4 and 5, for no matter cause, I will maintain a press convention and I will inform you what we had been gonna do. How’s that?”
The director additionally needs to launch novelized variations of the Avatar franchise, which might proceed after which end the story he had envisioned. “There’s a lot tradition and backstory and lateral element in these characters that is been labored out,” he stated. “I might like to do one thing that is at that stage of granular element.”
Cameron went on to query whether or not Avatar novels would work as a result of, as he claimed, “There is not any enterprise mannequin for it anymore. Individuals aren’t studying.”
“There’s a lot tradition and backstory and lateral element in these characters that is been labored out. I might like to do one thing that is at that stage of granular element. There is not any enterprise mannequin for it anymore. Individuals aren’t studying.”
Regardless that there have been research supposedly proving fewer persons are studying now, the literary area is definitely booming, with Barnes & Noble set to open 60 new shops in 2026. Fewer brick-and-mortar shops are opening with every passing yr attributable to on-line purchasing, however the huge bookseller has defied that development.
No matter what the research could present about studying, Cameron would possibly nonetheless go down that path so that there is a “canonical file of what it was all purported to be.“
“It is perhaps good to have the canonical file of what it was all purported to be.”
Regardless of his uncertainty proper now over the way forward for the Avatar franchise, Cameron remains to be hopeful that Disney will give him the inexperienced gentle to direct the fourth and fifth movies. In spite of everything, he retains proving all of the naysayers unsuitable with every new Avatar movie.
“I do not know if the saga goes past this level. I hope it does. However, you already know, we show that enterprise case each time we exit.”
Avatar grossed $2.923 billion on the field workplace in opposition to a $237 million funds, whereas Avatar: The Method of Water earned $2.343 billion. Contemplating the primary sequel noticed a drop of $580 million in complete income in comparison with the primary movie, it is doable that Fireplace and Ash might be the primary Avatar film that fails to succeed in $2 billion.
That does not imply Disney would cancel the remainder of the franchise, although. Fireplace and Ash might nonetheless in all probability gross wherever from $1.5 billion to $2 billion and nonetheless justify transferring forward with Avatar 4 and 5, that are presently scheduled for December 21, 2029, and December 19, 2031, respectively.
Avatar is certainly one of these franchises that’s resilient throughout its complete run in film theaters, which Disney will bear in mind.
Up to now, Fireplace and Ash has earned over $500 million in only one week. It took simply shy of every week for the primary two motion pictures to succeed in that milestone, which reveals that the threequel remains to be performing very nicely, even when it would not attain the identical heights as the primary two installments.
Each time Cameron talks about the way forward for Avatar, he appears to be reducing expectations, simply in case. Whereas he has different initiatives he needs to work on, like a brand new Terminator movie, it would not be shocking in any respect if he finally ends up again in Pandora for Avatar 4 and 5.
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December 21, 2029
- Producers
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Jon Landau