James Cameron Talks About the Difference Between AVATAR and Superhero Movies

Director James Cameron has strong opinions about just about every aspect of filmmaking and movies, and his latest opinion he wants to share is how different his Avatar films are from the superhero genre. It may seem to some that Avatar could easily fit into the same category, with its blue alien race, heroes and villains, and out of this world visual effects. But Cameron wants to make the differentiation clear.

In a recent interview with Korean film critic Dong-Jin Lee, the director explained:

"It's not like a superhero story where there's a new villain with every film. Same guy, right? Same adversary through the whole thing. But how he evolves is also very interesting once we bring in additional adversaries as we go along. Additional adversaries and additional allies."

Sure. Although there are Marvel and DC bad guys who have reoccurred in the storylines, we just happen to be watching these characters for longer than just a five-film beginning-to-end arc. Cameron went on to talk about the future of the franchise, saying:

"It looks like just with the momentum that the film has now that will easily pass our breakeven in the next few days, actually, so so it looks like I can't wiggle out of this, I'm gonna have to do these other these other sequels," Cameron revealed. "And I'm sure that we'll have a discussion soon, you know, with with the top folks that Disney about, you know, the game plan going forward for Avatar 3, which is already in the can we've already captured and photographed the whole film. And then avatar four and five are both written we even have some of four in the can. So you know, I think we can see that that I think we've begun a franchise at this point."

When asked if Cameron was sad that other projects of his would likely never get made because he was consumed with Avatar, he responded:

"Not so bad. I mean look, I understand this business and I understand the vagaries of it and the variables and you know the old expression you know, man proposes God disposes you never quite know what's going to happen. I also believe in planning for the upside not not sort of just making a movie Herky jerky and then waiting to see what happens but plan for the upside and then accept that if it doesn't work."

Are you happy to be getting three more Avatar movies from James Cameron? Avatar 3 is currently scheduled for release on Dec. 20, 2024, Avatar 4 on Dec. 18, 2026, and Avatar 5 on Dec. 22, 2028.

via: CB