It’s the news you’ve been waiting a decade for! James Cameron says his first Avatar sequel is “100 percent complete.” And you thought that shit would never get finished!
Cameron was speaking with Arnold Schwarzenegger about climate change as part of the Austrian World Summit, and he was asked to give an update on the sequels. Not only is Avatar 2 complete, but the next movie is pretty close, too…
“COVID hit us like it hit everybody,” Cameron said. “We lost about four and a half months of production. As a result of that, we’ve rolled around one more full year for a release in December of 2022. That’s been announced already. Now that doesn’t mean I have an extra year to finish the film, because the day we deliver Avatar 2 we’ll just start working on finishing Avatar 3.”
“So where we are right now. I’m down in New Zealand shooting. We’re shooting the remainder of the live action. We’ve got about 10 per cent left to go. We’re 100 per cent complete on Avatar 2, and we’re sort of 95 per cent complete on Avatar 3.”
That’s just the beginning, though. There will be a very long post-production process on these gigantic movies, and Cameron being a perfectionist he’s going to take as long as he damn well pleases. The question, as always, is whether people actually care. Avatar hasn’t aged well, and its status as one of the highest-grossing movies ever feels like it should have an asterisk or something.
