'Avatar 2' Release Date, Latest News: James Cameron Estimates Eight-Year Wait Before First Sequel Releases
Delays should hardly surprise "Avatar" fans by now, but the latest one may understandably come as a disappointment as the expected release date of the movie's highly anticipated sequel gets pushed, yet again, to a much later date.
The first "Avatar" sequel was first scheduled for a 2017 release, which was later moved to the end of 2018. But in a recent interview with the Toronto Star, award-winning director James Cameron revealed that 2018 will not bring a new "Avatar" movie in the theaters after all.
When asked about the rumored 2018 release, Cameron emphasized that they have not announced a firm release date yet, further adding that they are planning the sequels as "a cadence of releases" and that such an epic endeavor of simultaneously filming four movies at once does take time.
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"So I know where I'm going to be for the next eight years of my life," Cameron said. "It's not an unreasonable time frame, if you think about it. It took us four-and-a-half years to make one movie and now we're making four."
Everything is being set right from creatures to set designs, and Cameron assured eager fans that despite the scarcity of updates about the upcoming movies, work is progressing steadily behind the curtains. They will be sharing updates, spoilers and whatnots when they feel that the time is right.
In the meantime, Cameron has just teamed up with Israeli-Canadian journalist Simcha Jacobvici on a quest to find the lost city of Atlantis in the documentary titled "Atlantis Rising," which premiered on National Geographic on Jan. 29 and Discovery on March 12.
When asked if the "Avatar" sequels would feature echoes of Atlantis, Cameron replied, "Probably not."
He went on to explain that the "Avatar" films, at its very core, aim to explore human hubris and how humans use up and abuse the resources of the world for their own means.
"The 'Avatar' films are about our sense that we can dominate nature, when we should really learn to be a part of nature. Or we simply won't survive. So there are thematic connections," Cameron said.
