Everyone’s favorite race of giant blue aliens will be returning in the second and third installments of James Cameron‘s promised Avatar trilogy, but not until Christmas 2014, with Avatar 3 to appear the following year. [Moviefone, via Entertainment Weekly]
Cameron spoke with Entertainment Weekly about the plans for the future franchise of his global box-office champion:
“I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.”
Given that that Avatar had its release date changed several times before opening in December 2009, we can take this report with several tons of salt. It appears that everyone who survived the first film are likely to return for the next two, as well.
Cameron also plans to expand on the unabashed Green message of the first Avatar:
One thing’s for sure: some percentage of the presumably-massive Avatar sequel gross will go to charity. “Fox has partnered with me to donate a chunk of the profits to environmental causes that are at the heart of the Avatar world,” says the director. “I didn’t want to make more Avatar movies without a grander plan in place.”
Not bad. The director seems intent on changing our outlook on the environment – even if he has to bully the big studios into falling in line. Sounds good to me.
Watch Cameron criticize BP in the wake of their oil spill fiasco.
What do you think of the three year gap until the next Avatar movie? Will it be worth the wait?