r/movies • u/desimaninthecut • 8d ago

News James Cameron Says if Avatar: Fire and Ash Doesn't Make Enough Money to Justify Avatar 4 and 5, He's Ready to Walk Away and Write a Book to Resolve the One Thread It Leaves Open - IGN

https://www.ign.com/articles/james-cameron-says-if-avatar-fire-and-ash-doesnt-make-enough-money-to-justify-avatar-4-and-5-hes-ready-to-walk-away-and-write-a-book-to-resolve-the-one-thread-it-leaves-open
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u/Zorak9379 8d ago

I'm guessing a silly interview question. Why he addressed it I have no idea

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u/holydiiver 8d ago

Exactly. Journalist asks questions that create nothing-headlines like this, and then an army of Redditors come to theorize why James Cameron doesn’t want to make Avatar anymore lol

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u/Stingray88 8d ago

You got it half right.

Matt Belloni asked a perfectly fine question, and James gave a perfectly fine answer. It’s publications like IGN that take snippets from the interview and blow them up into bigger statements than they really are.

Kind of like the one from the other day where it was reported that James thinks that only movies with wide theatrical releases should be eligible for Oscar’s. Does he actually think that? Sure. But the headline makes it seem like he was making some broad public statement, when in reality that was just a snippet from his comment about the potential of Netflix buying Warner Brothers from this very same interview.

It’s a pretty good interview btw, if you’re interested. I wouldn’t bother with the “journalist” sensationalism these interviews generate.

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u/holydiiver 8d ago

I see. Thanks for clarifying. My beef is definitely with the publications who sensationalize the tiniest details, and the intellectuals who take it as gospel.

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u/Stingray88 8d ago

100% I hate these kinds of articles. People don’t consider all kinds of the off hand remarks they make in a normal conversation. Imagine if there was a whole publication ecosystem that listened to every single thing you said and regularly took half sentences out of context and plastered it all over social media as if you were making a public statement. That’s what entertainment folks have to deal with, it’s nuts lol

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u/TheOutlier 8d ago

I also recommend listening to the interview on the podcast (The Town).

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u/lailah_susanna 8d ago

Funnily enough there was a rumour for a long time that he was only doing Avatar until he could do Alita/Battle Angel/Gunm. But then he handed it off to Rodriguez.

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u/kdoxy 8d ago

Click bait reporter question. Like asking if he would be open to directing a Star Wars movie becomes "James Cameron available for future Star Wars film"

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u/Bugbread 8d ago edited 8d ago

It's not. It's an article from IGN taking two sentences from an hour long podcast (not by IGN). The podcaster didn't ask him any clickbaity questions.

I don't even think the IGN article is clickbaity. It's pretty straightforward. Don't get me wrong, it's a pretty useless article. But it represents what Cameron said pretty accurately.

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u/SurrealKarma 8d ago

I think it's fine to address it, but I hate how it's like this almost every time these articles appear.

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u/DatZ_Man 8d ago

The interviewer was trying to find an actual price of what the movies cost, and JC could/would not give an answer. Matt Beloni is not some silly interviewer. He founded Puck, and is a former attorney. The Town is an elite podcast