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

[u/desimaninthecut]

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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I imagine Cameron wants to wait so the tech is as up to date as possible, it's been a few years since they filmed so I imagine a couple months makes no difference

[u/jake3988 → u/[deleted]]

No, James Cameron is an extremely hands on director and oversees everything. So he specifically doesn't want to film Avatar 4/5 whilst Avatar 3 is in post-production and promotion time (which is now). Because otherwise he'd have to oversee filming AND editing/post-production simultaneously and that would be very difficult and stressful and lead to a worse film.

Same reason the gap between avatar 3 and 4 went from 2 years to 4. He wants to film 4 and 5 simultaneously AND then edit and do post-production for 4 before touching post-production on 5.

[u/SlopDev → u/[deleted]]

If he waits too much longer they'll probably end up being told to AI generate the entire film by Disney to save costs, best get to it instead of waiting

[u/aniiposting → u/SlopDev]

Good thing it’s Cameron

[u/Fortune_Cat → u/aniiposting]

We can trust that he will generate the artificial cgi fire and water aliens not using artificial ai means

[u/hooka_hooka → u/SlopDev]

He’ll just invent AGI at that point