Avatar sequel news: James Cameron announces no less that four sequels at CinemaCon in Las Vegas.
James Cameron’s Avatar series will expand to five after it was announced at CinemaCon that no less than four sequels are being planned at 20th Century Fox. More on the Avatar sequel news below.
Avatar is still the highest grossing film of all-time, and James Cameron is plotting an onslaught on the box-office once again as it has been revealed that he will release a sequel in 2018, followed by another film in 2020, another in 2022, and a final film in 2023. He’s going to be busy.
More than anything else, this may concern Disney (though probably not too much) as all of those releases are planned for Christmas, which clashes with the continuing Star Wars sequels.
Avatar is the story of ex-Marine Jake, a paraplegic war veteran, who finds himself thrust into hostilities on a distant planet filled with exotic life forms, Pandora. As an Avatar, a human consciousness in an alien body, he finds himself torn between two worlds in a desperate fight for his own survival and that of the indigenous people. Those from Earth find themselves at odds with each other and the local culture.
At CinemaCon, Fox also debuted a nice new Avatar logo:
Back in 2014, it was confirmed that Sigourney Weaver was confirmed to star in three Avatar sequel. We don’t know if she’ll come back for the fourth, but we’re expecting so.
Here’s what Cameron had to say about the Avatar sequel news. “I’ve been working with the top four screenwriters and designers in the world to design the world of Avatar going forward,” he said. “The environments, new cultures — whatever it takes to bring it to life. From what I’m seeing of the art on the wall … in pure imagination is just beyond the first film. I’m speechless.”
Producer jon Landau and James Cameron at CinemaCon
Cameron heavily defended the cinema-going experience at the CinemaCon convention. Avatar, which was released in 2009, was certianly a film which needed to be seen in a theatre.
“Our jobs as filmmakers is to keep making films onscreen,” he told the audience, mostly made up of cinema-owners. “We’ll continue to make this industry the greatest show on Earth. My producer Jon Landau and I are committed to the theater experience. Despite what the folks at the Screening Room say, I think movies need to be offered in the theater on opening day. So boom.”
He continued: “There’s an important point that needs to be made. There’s always been a threat with moviegoing, whether that’s been video, DVD or streaming. … We answer it by being great with our showmanship. We create things by being great in the movie theater. I want to give exhibition a shout-out for keeping the experience sacred: making the sound better, the chairs comfier — whatever it takes to get people to get in their cars to go across town.”
More Avatar sequel news as we get it.
