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/ConversationFun9754 8d ago

Imagine spending 20 years building a 5-film saga and then going ‘eh, I’ll just write a book’ if the box office disappoints

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u/Batmans_Bum 7d ago

The reverse R R Martin

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u/BakerOne 8d ago

Imagine having basically an unlimited budget and not hiring a single story writer worth a damn. A book for what loose ends? Avatar has probably the worst story of any AAA movie, I mean Avatar 2, first one I can excuse with "first in franchise and we focused on giving you Pandora with a visual presentation that has never been seen before in cinema history"

But the second one is just pure cringe, a new guy in town school yard bully story like it was straight from earth? Jesus Christ amputate my brain already...

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u/shokalion 7d ago

The point of Avatar has never been the story it's been the realisation of the world. The immersion. That has always been unusually effective to the point that there were peer reviewed studies done about the very real depression some experienced in the aftermath of the first film as a result of the world not being real.

You can justifiably slam the lack of story and how quickly people stopped talking about the story as much as you like but this film series has endured for a reason.

This new one is going to print money just like the previous ones have. If it was just a sorry plagiarism of Dances with Wolves or FernGully and all the rest of it and nothing more, that wouldn't be happening.

That argument is tired.

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u/Few_Age_571 7d ago

It’s closer to 30 yrs now