James Cameron Working on Four Avatar Sequels • Page 2

Branding and merchandising are definitely a part of it. I think the first examples in that Forbes article were that kids don't play with Avatar action figures or play Avatar on the playground, haha. And I mean, you don't need that to have influence, but when you have none of the other things either, it's pretty bizarre. Especially since this was the movie where people were like, contemplating suicide because they wanted to live on Pandora or something.

 

Oh absolutely. I mean, even most of my memories related to it were seeing it in theaters a couple times, but outside of that I dont remember anything else related to it (like quotes and character names as you mentioned). The example of kids not playing it on the playground was an interesting point I didn't even think of at first. Even for me as a kid I would play something Star Wars related with my friends on the playground and yet my younger cousins who should've been at the age to do the same with this movie never did. All in all, it's pretty damn strange. Interesting, but strange.

 

Kinda overkill, aint it? I guess it's better knowing ahead of time that there's 4 sequels are in the works rather than us getting sick of hearing about each new one being announced.

 

Why? Didn't he bore everyone enough with the first one. Taking a page from Tom DeLonge's book with quantity over quality it seems.

 

Oh, the other one I forgot: Sam Worthington was the star of Avatar but is otherwise not a star at all. When was the last time he was in a movie?

 

Uhh wasn't he in some Terminator movie? Or was that before Avatar?

But yeah, he never really had any other noticeable roles after that. I remember people thinking his career was gonna take off and then...nothing.

 

I actually think that was before Avatar. Man, what a stinker that was. He was in those Wrath of the Titans movies. That's about all I've got.

 

And none of those were any good

 

Especially considering the first was highest grossing ever despite how awful it was (my opinion), this is the best example of waiting too long. Hasn't he spent the last, what, five years talking about four sequels lol

 

Bet it still makes boats of money.

 

Tough to doubt a track record like his.

 

Thanks for the offer, but I'll pass. Why 4?

 

Honestly curious to see how this will do. I'm not sure it has the staying power to hold up for a franchise after so long but I may be completely wrong.

 

I think it'll still get a huge amount of fanfare. The world that he created in the first one was definitely really interesting and the visuals were insane. I think he's only going to take that further. I don't know how films 3/4/5 would do in the box office but I'm confident 2 would have an outrageous amount of hype for it

 

Does anyone care about these sequels? The first one was so long ago and all talk since the initial "wow" has been negative.

 

I'll gladly sit them all out. First one was complete shit.

 

Well it's clear this is his passion project, because ain't no one asking for 4 sequels to Avatar. Cameron has got to make sure the writing is quality, which I have doubts about

 

A ton of people will see the second one, and I'm sure it will make a ton of money but it will probably suffer the same fate as the first. I disliked basically everything about the Avatar except for the visuals, but even that got old to me after a while. Especially because as someone mentioned above, it's really all about the big-screen, 3D experience and I'm not a fan of 3D either.

 

I really admire what Cameron has done, but with all the money he's pouring into this, combined with the lack of lasting impact the original had, I can't imagine he doesn't end up losing money on this project.

Read those a while back... fascinating stuff.

 

He had a very small part in Everest. Thats the most recent thing I've seen him in, he has like two scenes maybe?

 

Is there another hugely movie with a comparable fate? Seems like a really singular thing to me, which makes it even weirder.

I didn't even know that was a thing, haha

 

Haha the movie? Or that he was in it?

 

Could it be said that Avatar sparked renewed interest in 3D movies or am I just making shit up?

 

It definitely did, but that didn't really last long. Yeah movies still come out in 3D, but after Avatar EVERY movie was 3D. That has somewhat died down a bit.

 

Four movies that most people do not want. The big news today is that Legendary pictures is bidding for a live-action Pokémon movie!