{"id":24688,"date":"2016-04-14T23:49:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T06:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/james-cameron-confirms-he-is-making-four-avatar-sequels"},"modified":"2017-06-04T10:30:22","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T17:30:22","slug":"james-cameron-confirms-he-is-making-four-avatar-sequels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/james-cameron-confirms-he-is-making-four-avatar-sequels","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron confirms he is making four Avatar sequels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019d already heard rumors that James Cameron had found three sequels a little limiting<\/a> for his Avatar<\/i> <\/i>follow-ups, and on stage at CinemaCon today he made it official. The filmmaker announced that no less than four new sequels to his 3D epic are in the works, with the first hitting theaters in 2018.<\/p>\n

The filmmaker discussed the many ways in which he is expanding the world \u2014 a theme park with Disney in in the works, and his company has signed a deal with Dark Horse Comics for graphic novel spin-offs \u2014 but the movies themselves are obviously the biggest component. The Avatar<\/i> <\/i>sequels have been a moving target since he first announced he was working on them, and Cameron has since assembled what amounts to a screenwriting superteam to break the story for the various films. As it stands, the second film in the series will be coming out in the holiday season of 2018, with the subsequent films arriving in 2020, 2022, and 2023.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a true epic saga that\u2019s told in this rich and complex world,\u201d Cameron assured the theater owners, while also taking the moment on stage to voice his support for exclusive theatrical windows for movie releases \u2014 a hot topic at this year\u2019s show thanks to the recent emergence of Sean Parker\u2019s The Screening Room initiative, which would allow audiences to rent first-run movies from their living room. As Cameron framed it, technology threatening movie theaters was nothing new. \u201cThere\u2019s always been some kind of threat to the theater-going experience,\u201d he said, \u201cbut we\u2019ve always answered that threat in the same way. By being great, and showmanship.\u201d<\/p>\n

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We\u2019d already heard rumors that James Cameron had found three sequels a little limiting for his Avatar follow-ups, and on stage at CinemaCon today he made it official. The filmmaker announced that no less than four new sequels to his 3D epic are in the works, with the first hitting theaters in 2018. The filmmaker [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62034,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24688\/revisions\/62034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}