James Cameron has been doing a lot of things since 2009’s “Avatar,” but none of them have involved directing a movie, but rather, he’s been busy expanding the Pandora brand. There’s the just opened, Disney World’s Pandora: The World of Avatar attraction, he teamed with Cirque du Soleil for “Toruk,” a show inspired by his blockbuster movie, and of course, the director has been forever talking about his ambitious sequel plans. Many have been skeptical about whether or not “Avatar 2” can have the same kind of pop culture impact of its predecessor, especially coming so many years after the fact, but Cameron isn’t worried.
The filmmaker recently addressed the huge, eleven-year gap that will span 2009’s “Avatar” and 2020’s “Avatar 2” (barring any further delays), and essentially pointed his admittedly impressive track record when it comes to sequels.
“It was a seven-year gap between ‘The Terminator‘ and ‘Terminator 2: Judgment Day,’ seven-year gap between ‘Alien‘ and ‘Aliens.’ It’s gonna be obviously more like a ten-year gap between ‘Avatar’ and ‘Avatar 2.’ But ‘Avatar 2’ you are going to with not the promise, but the certainty of three more films beyond that, and that’s a very different concept with the audience. And a lot of the delay has been around creating that overall vision,” he told CNN.
Can Cameron strike sequel lightning three times with “Avatar 2″…..and then again and again with the next three planned movies? That might be the biggest question he’s ever had to answer in his career, and we’ll find out if he does it again on December 18, 2020. [via Heroic Hollywood]