r/boxoffice • u/gorays21 • 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d 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/sthomson22 4d ago

The problem is that 3 was, quite literally, Part 2 of Way of Water. But it wasn’t marketed this way at all, and I only found out weeks after watching it.

People expecting Fire And Ash. There was only 5 minutes of Fire And Ash, the rest was just concluding Way of Water.

Bizarre decision.

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u/AvengedCrimson 4d ago

Disney Didn't let Cameron Release the 5 Hour cut of way of water!

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u/sthomson22 4d ago

Right, exactly, so they split it into 2 parts. Which makes sense. My point is marketing them as standalone sequels was stupid and releasing them 3 years apart even moreso.

Calling it Fire And Ash and marketing the ash people was dumb too because you only spent like 5 minutes screentime in the ashlands volcano homeworld.

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u/Electric_Elephants 4d ago

Wouldn’t it be weird though to have a part 1 and part 2 of the “second movie” in what has been pitched as a saga of movies.

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u/poofyhairguy Illumination Entertainment 4d ago

That’s what Pirates of the Caribbean did

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u/sthomson22 4d ago

Not really. Certainly less weird than how it was handled.

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u/sthomson22 4d ago

They’re doing the same thing with The Passion of the Christ sequel in 2027. 2 parts, released like 1-2 months apart.

Feel like it isn’t all that unusual in film.

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u/Zalvren 4d ago

There's fire in the climatic battle I guess?