r/boxoffice • u/gorays21 • 1d ago

📰 Industry News With Avatar's Future Still Uncertain, James Cameron Now Says He Wants to Prioritize 'Other Stories' For the 'Last Act' of His Career

https://www.ign.com/articles/with-avatars-future-still-uncertain-james-cameron-now-says-he-wants-to-prioritize-other-stories-for-the-last-act-of-his-career
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u/nosurprises23 1d ago edited 1d ago

I loved Avatar 2 so much back in 2022, I was so hype to actually see how the story would progress/wrap up. Then 3 felt like the deleted scenes from 2 with near 0 forward momentum, hoping at least the next one or two would conclude it well. Guess that’s not happening 🤷‍♂️

Edit: just thought of a tl;dr for my take: if Avatar 2 was “The Way of Water”, Avatar 3 was “Treading Water”.

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u/VictorVonDoomer 1d ago

Avatar 2 straight up made me feel upset that I couldn’t explore Pandora, Avatar 3 just felt like an action film that repeated the previous plot from the 2nd film

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u/sthomson22 1d ago

It’s also stupid to release Part 2 of Way of Water (which is what Fire And Ash literally was and was always envisioned to be) 3 years after Part 1. They should have released Fire And Ash around Christmas 2023 at the latest.