James Cameron is giving Avatar fans a heads-up for the upcoming third sequel.
The Academy Award-winning director, 70, dropped some hints on Wednesday during a recent interview with Empire Magazine.
“It’s a tricky thing,” Cameron said when asked what to expect from the latest installment of the Avatar franchise.
“We could be getting high on our own supply here, and everybody who looks at it [the new film] goes, ‘F***, that’s not what I signed up for.’ “
“But if you’re not making brave choices, you’re wasting everybody’s time and money,” he continued, adding, “That alone is not sufficient to create success, but it’s necessary. You’ve got to break the mold every fricking time.”
The veteran filmmaker also warned that some scenarios in the upcoming sequel may take the audience to “places they won’t expect,” but added that those places “will feel earned.”
“We’ve got some really clever action set-pieces,” he told the outlet. “You can get your blood up in this movie. But what excites me as an artist who recently turned 70 and has kind of done all that stuff is not only the opportunity to get to do it again, but to get to a level of character and intrigue you haven’t seen before in an Avatar movie.”
Cameron also gave an insider view of the production stage, saying the movie is in “strong shape.”
“We’ve doubled the number of shots finished at this stage of the game than we had on movie two [and] the films are about equal length. So that puts us well ahead of the curve, which is something I’ve never, frankly, experienced before.”
“We’re getting to the point where we’re actually getting good at this,” he said with a laugh.
Avatar 3: Fires and Ash is scheduled to hit theaters on December 19, 2025.
