'Avatar' to Have 4 More Sequels? Release Date, Cast, Plot & Rumors Here!

In the not-so-distant past, audiences are made to speculate as to whether a particular movie will have a sequel. Now, releasing films as trilogies or creating a cinematic franchise appears to be a de rigeur practice among studios. News of a follow up isn't much of a surprise, although it does delight fans of the original film.

So it should not be a shocking surprise to find out that "Avatar" creator and director James Cameron has surfaced to tell us that there will be a sequel. Or rather, up to 4 sequels.

With the likelihood of an "Avatar 5" looming on the horizon as early as now, it does look like the "Titanic" director favors the massive and the epic.

"Right now, Jim has got four sequels, script-wise, and he's trying to make it into three," Oscar-winning soundtrack meister James Horner, a longtime Cameron collaborator, was quoted by Entertainment Weekly as saying. "And that's where his effort is going, right now, to keep it to three sequels. Because he's got so much going on."

"How do you keep it from expanding into yet a fourth movie-a fifth movie, I guess, total. He'll get that sorted out," he added.

Considering that the release of "Avatar 2" will be delayed until 2017, we might be seeing the final "Avatar" installment in 2019 or 2020. Or maybe it could be 2 years later than that, knowing Cameron's penchant for perfectionism. But first, he has to finalize his scripts and actually get the first sequel done.

"It's obvious that the writer-director feels there are a tremendous number of stories to be told about the Na'vi and the future world of Avatar, and given his track record he's certainly earned the benefit of the doubt," The Verge observed.

It is worth clarifying that the director is not writing the scripts alone. He has Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, Josh Friedman, and Shane Salerno helping him out in hammering out the scripts. Will his team help him churn out the movies as planned?

In January this year, it was reported that Cameron had to delay "Avatar 2" and push it to a late 2017 release. He was reportedly occupied with writing the three sequels, which is understandably a complex task.

"There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a stand-alone film," he was quoted by The Hollywood Reporter as saying.

"We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films," he went on to explain. "We're not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that."

"And parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments," he hinted.

What do you think of the creation of the upcoming sequels?

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