Legendary director James Cameron has announced that he plans to only make Avatar movies from now on. Cameron’s most popular works include The Terminator, Alien, Titanic and Avatar. Two of Cameron’s films, Titanic and Avatar, are two of the highest-grossing films of all time with $2.16 billion and $2.78 billion in earnings, respectively.
While in China, Cameron talked to the New York Times about his future plans as a filmmaker:
“I’ve divided my time over the last 16 years over deep ocean exploration and filmmaking. I’ve made two movies in 16 years, and I’ve done eight expeditions. Last year I basically completely disbanded my production company’s development arm. So I’m not interested in developing anything. I’m in the “Avatar” business. Period. That’s it. I’m making “Avatar 2,” “Avatar 3,” maybe “Avatar 4,” and I’m not going to produce other people’s movies for them. I’m not interested in taking scripts. And that all sounds I suppose a little bit restricted, but the point is I think within the “Avatar” landscape I can say everything I need to say that I think needs to be said, in terms of the state of the world and what I think we need to be doing about it. And doing it in an entertaining way. And anything I can’t say in that area, I want to say through documentaries, which I’m continuing. I’ve done five documentaries in the last 10 years, and I’ll hopefully do a lot more. In fact, I’m doing one right now, which is on this, the Deep Sea Challenge project that we just completed the first expedition. So that’ll be a film that’ll get made this year and come out first quarter of next year.”
Do you think this new approach will be successful or will movie-goers become tired of Avatar?
