James Cameron Confirms ‘Avatar 2’ Won’t Arrive In 2018, Make Your Fake Surprised Face Now
By Ethan Anderton/March 10, 2017 9:00 am EST
Find out the disappointing news James Cameron had about the Avatar 2 release date below.
James Cameron took time out of his busy Avatar schedule to team up with Israeli-Canadian journalist Simcha Jacobovici to figure out if the lost city of Atlantis actually existed in a new documentary called Atlantis Rising, premiering on Discovery this Sunday. While talking about the project with The Star, discussion inevitably turned to the development of the Avatar 2, and that’s when James Cameron delivered the update that we all knew was coming:
“Well, 2018 is not happening. We haven’t announced a firm release date. What people have to understand is that this is a cadence of releases. So we’re not making Avatar 2. We’re making Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. It’s an epic undertaking. It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam. (Laughs) So I know where I’m going to be for the next eight years of my life. It’s not an unreasonable time frame if you think about it. It took us four-and-a-half years to make one movie and now we’re making four. We’re full tilt boogie right now. This is my day job and pretty soon we’ll be 24-7. We’re pretty well designed on all our creatures and sets. It’s pretty exciting stuff. I wish I could share with the world. But we have to preserve a certain amount of showmanship and we’re going to draw that curtain when the time is right.”
Even though Avatar 2 isn’t arriving in 2018, that doesn’t mean the rest of the movies will get pushed back. Since all four of the Avatar sequels are being made at the same time, it’s conceivable that each one could be released each year after the first one arrives, whenever that may be. Then again, the previous schedule gave two years between each release, so Cameron might require that much time in post-production to get everything right.
Sorry, Avatar fans, you’re just gonna have shine it on just a little bit longer. In the meantime, the new Avatar theme park land may give you an idea where all of this is going.
