Regisseur James Cameron is van plan om de twee Avatar sequels back-to-back op te nemen. Ook voorziet hij de momenten waarop de films moeten uitkomen: met kerst 2014 en kerst 2015. Dit en meer zegt hij tegenover Entertainment Weekly:

I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ’14 and ’15 is the current plan.

Hier voegt de veelbesproken en succesvolle regisseur aan toe:

Basically, if you survived the first film, you get to be in the second film, at least in some form… [And] Fox has partnered with me to donate a chunk of the profits to environmental causes that are at the heart of the Avatar world. I didn’t want to make more Avatar movies without a grander plan in place.

Dit betekent dat de cast van de eerste film grotendeels gaat terugkeren in Avatar 2.