Fox News sprak tijdens de Covenant House Gala in Los Angeles met regisseur James Cameron over de Avatar sequels die december 2014 en december 2015 moeten uitkomen. De nog titelloze Avatar 2 en Avatar 3 worden back-to-back opgenomen.
Cameron: "We're shooting two films back-to-back, so I'm writing two scripts, not one, which will complete a [three]-film story arc - not really a trilogy, but just an overall character arc so I'm pretty excited about that. We're doing a lot of preliminary work right now on new software and new animation techniques and so on. We're creating a new facility in Manhattan Beach so everybody that's not already dead is coming back."
De film, die de de 3D hype volledig lanceerde, verdiende $2.782.275.172 aan de wereldwijde box office. Er werd hem ook gevraagd of hij de druk voelt van het succes van het eerste deel uit 2009. Cameron: "There's always an expectation. I had to deal with that after 'The Terminator' back in 1984. All of a sudden I had a big hit movie and it was 'what are you doing next?' But my job is take the audience on a journey and entertain them. The second I am sitting down writing, I just go to Pandora. I don't think about that stuff, about standing on a red carpet. It has its own life, really. The characters have their own lives."
James Cameron over Avatar 2 en 3
Het wordt geen trilogie, maar een "character arc".
