Disney og James Cameron ser bestemt ikke ud til at fjerne foden fra speederen, når det gælder Avatar-franchisen, for der er allerede planer om flere film længere ude i fremtiden - nemlig Avatar 4 i 2029 og Avatar 5 i 2031. Vi er dog stadig langt fra, at de planer bliver til virkelighed, så om de holder, er uvist.
Den gode nyhed er, at selvom der er mere Avatar på vej, så behøver vi ikke vente fem år eller mere på et ordentligt dramatisk punktum i historien. Cameron har nemlig gjort det klart, at den kommende Avatar: Fire & Ash, den tredje film i serien, som får premiere den 19. december, bliver afslutningen på en saga - et konkluderende tredje kapitel, der i praksis markerer afslutningen på denne æra af Avatar-fortællingen.
I et interview med Gizmodo forklarer Cameron:
"I think you've got a little bit of experience with sequels and how you have to deliver beyond the audience's expectation, take them from the familiar to the new each time. I don't think of Fire and Ash as a sequel. I think it was a culmination of a saga. I like 'saga' better than 'sequel' because a lot of where we were going with the story was in the original architecture of the story."
Han uddyber videre: "So if you think of this as the third act, I think that's healthier. As opposed to a typical Hollywood sequel, where they make a bunch of money with a movie and then they're like, 'Oh, crap. We've got to scramble around and get a new script. Maybe it's not so good, but let's just shoot it and get it out there.' That's not what we're doing here at all. It's a long game. And I went into it knowing that we'd be playing a long game and betting that the audience would come along with us and care about these people. Because they may be 10 feet tall and blue, but they're people."
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