Cameron said the following when asked if 2018 was still the target for the release of Avatar 2:
>Well, 2018 is not happening. We haven’t announced a firm release date. What people have to understand is that this is a cadence of releases. So we’re not making Avatar 2. We’re making Avatar 2, 3, 4 and 5. It’s an epic undertaking. It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam. (Laughs) So I know where I’m going to be for the next eight years of my life. 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. We’re full tilt boogie right now. This is my day job and pretty soon we’ll be 24-7. We’re pretty well designed on all our creatures and sets. It’s pretty exciting stuff. I wish I could share with the world. But we have to preserve a certain amount of showmanship and we’re going to draw that curtain when the time is right.
When will someone tell him no one wants this crap anyway
Do we really need a sequel to blue pocahantas? Didn't the first movie say enough?
Jack Sanchez
How did it end up being the highest grossing film ever, anyway?
I'm not gonna shit on it because it had a pretty generic plot, I get that it was meant to be a big showpiece, but still, I don't get why it was SO popular.
Owen Robinson
who cares. im honestly so sick of franchises. also: >took 4.5 yrs to make #1 >8 years to make 4 more how does anyone expect this to be a good franchise. its incredibly uninteresting.
Gavin Brooks
>It’s not unlike building the Three Gorges dam. (Laughs)
Haha.
Where the movies at, you fucking fossil?
Austin Collins
>How did it end up being the highest grossing film ever, anyway?
It was the movie that brought back 3D technology and promised a new way of watching movies.
First and foremost Cameron is a businessman, he sold that hype super fucking hard and people ate it up, I mean it's the guy who made Terminator and Titanic, he's good for it!
Dylan Gonzalez
a combination of gimmicky 3D, supposedly revolutionary CGI and the fact that Cameron hadn't made a movie since 1997. It was also a family friendly movie.
Christian Rogers
Marketing? Paranormal activity had a fan moving bed covers and a woman screaming to the camera and it made bank with 83% rotten tomatoes.
William Rivera
Fuckin lol, Cameron has tanked his career with these movies, they'll probably bankrupt Fox if they ever come out.
Hudson Clark
Holy shit, how many times has he delayed this thing now? 3 times? 4? maybe even 5?
Mason Evans
Well he's also making a massive ass Avatar theme park, so he probably stretched the franchise a little thin.
idk I'm into a new eco-based fantasy world. Can't be star wars an lotr all the time.
Brayden Hughes
>we're making them all back-to-back Yeah, but IIRC he hasn't ever started filming yet, just get on with it already before the actors all croak
Kayden Bailey
Summer 2020
Aiden Moore
I really, really hate Avatar being a franchise. But I dont quite understand why I hate it so much. I saw Avatar and it was the epitome of meh. I dont care about capeshit endless sequels, but this Avatar business makes me literally rage. Why?
Please no "youre autistic" answers
James Richardson
was Avatar the beginning of the end of kino?
Austin Phillips
I blame the bluecats. If there is anything that is an actual challenge to present it is the Na'vi. CGI would bleed just to get the details correct. All the power armors and guns are easy pickings but the Na'vi would be a herculean task to present in their intended vision. Assuming he put documentary style places. Then it would even be harder to present.
Jonathan Mitchell
I don't believe that these movies exist. Or that they will ever come out.
Hudson Butler
I'd be into if the navi race wasnt gay as fuck
You know your films fucked when you cheer on the humans fire bombing them hippies out of their tree
Luis Jenkins
The movie said enough, but the box office said there needed to be eight sequels.
Parker Hill
If this ends cinematic universes popping up, then do it!
Oliver Wood
God, I hope this bombs so hard, it ruins FOX and blacklists Cameron forever. That tree fucking vegan degenerate hippie fuck.
Sebastian Peterson
This. Its a pretty interesting in terms of world building. It has disntict animals, plants, and people. I think he is combining both Star Trek and Star Wars with the military vs science thing. It even has mythology for a single film.
Hudson Bell
fuck dont remind me
Bentley Allen
>all these plebs talking shit
You will eat those words. When has Cameron ever not delivered? These kinos are gonna blow your socks off.
Colton Rivera
he's gonna end up sticking a billion dollars and 5 movies up his ass. Poor guy he lost his mind
Jonathan Morgan
For me, the problem was that the Na'vi were TOO perfect. I get that they were going for pretty simple good vs evil story but it felt like once you get tech and a world that has so much work going into it, it deserves a little more narrative and moral complexity. Nothing super deep, just a little more to question.
Nolan Cox
Lol Avatar is S H I T H I T
Bravo wasting the last the years of your life for such a shot series and theme land
Luis Sanders
it's trying so hard and so much money is thrown at it to make it a "franchise" even though it's completely mediocre and unearned?
Jeremiah Allen
Lmao I never thought of it that way, but that movie made some fucking movie off of nothing.
Wyatt Anderson
Where is the Magua of Pandora, a ruthless bastard that won't stomach DA YANKEE (see:jake) and his halfbreed spawn
Lucas Price
How big is avatar feces? what does it taste like?
Colton White
>When has Cameron ever not delivered?
With Avatar 1
Matthew Russell
Didn't the female Na'vi had a brother who hates Jake's guts?
Levi Harris
Na'vi don't poop
-James Cameron.
Aiden Jackson
Also it will be nearly a decade after the movie came out by the time the second one is in cinemas
Wouldnt it make more sense to just make Avatar 2, and release it to see how it fares?
Why do they assume all 4 of them will be a success just because its Avatar?
Colton Fisher
>Highest grossing film of all time >Virtually no presence in pop culture
How does this happen?
Gavin Ramirez
Imagine if he dies the movies are over...oh wait no, it will have his face as marketing and will win a oscar for tears.
But seriously, what if Avatar 2 is universally disliked, what happens to the other movies?
Tyler Ward
The Abyss.
Jace Hill
plz make battle angel instead Jim
Adam Jones
What are you talking about, they play the trailer for Avatar on every nice TV they sell in Best Buy
Henry Johnson
I don't think you understand how big Avatar is in China. They will singlehandedly bankroll 50 Avatar films and one Avatar spin-off that's just a gang of Na'avi fucking your mother. They don't give a shit.
Jace Smith
Kek he farmed out that "passion project" of his to Robert Rodriguez
Xavier Powell
Yeah but then they touched hair penises together and became best buds
Jacob Hughes
0/10 You're just butthurt.
The sad thing is, I remember more about Abatap shitposting than I do about Avatar
Logan Gomez
This is going to be a fucking disaster. I hope they bomb and cause the 3D meme to die out.
Julian Johnson
God, I'm just hoping Cameron doesnt die while producing this shit.
Ian Cooper
Because there's nothing to remember about Avatar outside of its financial success. Everything about the movie is totally forgettable. You can't even get any "so bad it's good" material out of it. Pure mediocrity from start to finish.
Luke Nelson
I love how divisive it is right now. My guess is Cameron would pull a Wrath of Khan in the movie. Essentially rebooting the whole thing.
Dylan Wood
I hope Avatar 2 has Ghosts.
Brody Young
This could be a bigger disaster than the star wars prequels
I hope rlm is ready
Ryan Rivera
It had a very definite effect; 3D film being popularized again and Hollywood blockbusters coming 3D as standard.
It didn't have much effect as an art piece, I'll agree.
Evan Wilson
This is what butthurt haters actually believe.
Cry more.
Eli Jackson
And the 3D fad is already dead again
So unless Cameron can bring it back again with 2, its not making as much money this time around
Charles Peterson
Its success is owed mainly to the technology, but also timing - it filled the void left in the sci-fi genre after the Star Wars prequels ended.
Because Cameron's head is so far up his own ass these days that he still doesnt realize NOBODY CARED about Avatar's story or characters, or wants to see them continue.
The guy's completely lost touch with what made his earlier movies work so well, falling into the same love affair with CG as Lucas and Jackson.
Aiden Sullivan
Does Titanic have much of a presence in pop culture? You look at most of those top grossing movies and there isn't really any lasting legacy.
Henry Sanchez
>Still not watched avatar
Asher Collins
movies are still being released in 3D every week and remain profitable, especially tentpoles. Even fucking B-movie tentpoles like Resident Evil (look up how well the latest did abroad.) Every kids film is 3D.
And now with VR which can offer better 3D experiences, there's even more incentive for productions to utilise the format.
Just because it failed on TVs doesn't mean it's dead. Far from it.
Gavin Roberts
Celine Dion has a stronger place in pop culture than the actual movie.
Daniel Barnes
People still meme about the Jack and Rose scenes all the time. Of course it's part of culture.
It still holds an Oscar record too.
Lucas Wilson
Thankfully we have Snyder to set things right again ;)
Brandon Thompson
Shakespeare in Love won an Oscar for Best Picture thanks to Titanic.
Elijah Torres
>people here are still doubting Jim When will newfags learn
Nathaniel Davis
Yes but I wonder which one is more profitable when it comes to them movies, the 2D or 3D screenings.
Whenever I talk to anyone they talk about how they watch it in 2D, and I havent really seen anyone on this board praise 3D at all
Jacob Butler
Chinese Democracy is a great record. Give it a chance. Listen to every track. Prostitute is every bit the great ending track that rocket queen was.
Nicholas Perry
I want Old Jim back (T2, Aliens, Piranha II), not this imposter.
Isaac Smith
but GNR is shit in general
David Adams
>T2 thanks for showing your plebness. I bet you didn't even watch Avatar in the cinema
Thomas Lopez
>Does Titanic have much of a presence in pop culture? Yes, people still talk about Jack and rose and if they could both fit on the wreckage and so on.
Looking at the top 25 films, The only film that has less cultural impact in Avatar would be Alice in Wonderland (2010), Transformers movies. (Assuming you count series as a whole for cultural impact, as while bond is huge, skyfall isn't)
Carter Allen
>Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Wasnt that the first major 3D release after Avatar aswell?
Carter Morris
>Abatap will triumphantly return to Sup Forums upon the release of Avatar 2
Oliver Bailey
Certainly more than Avatar.
Jayden Perez
Isn't he dead or in jail or something?
Levi Hughes
Yes it was.
Alice in Wonderland, How you Train your Dragon, and Clash of the Titans where the next major releases of 3d after Avatar in that order.
Dylan Sanders
Thank God Sir Ridley is still making interesting (albiet flawed) movies. Certainly preferable to Cameron's sanitized hippie trash.
Jason Bell
My local has 4DX. It's actually pretty good.
Justin Stewart
why do you keep mentioning hippies? Are you a conservative christian from 1960s America?
let it go, gramps.
Cooper Young
I disagree. So do the millions of dollars spent on the reunion tour which is selling out all over the world. And i know the next statement will be that Axl is a shit and they are just doing a nostalgia act. They are playing the new stuff and pulling out older songs that never got played much like Coma(which, if you wish to be critical of their skill, is a an incredibly complicated song for everybody in the band)
Carter Nguyen
>Thank God Sir Ridley is still making interesting (albiet flawed) movies But he isn't. He sleeps in the directors chair and his apprentice's do everything
David Smith
baka.com.au/news/entertainment/film/oscars-2009/psst-133-do-you-want-to-win-an-oscar/2009/02/19/1234632973365.html >Miramax spent an estimated $US16 million (about $US2700 for each academy member) on its Shakespeare campaign, hosting red-carpet events and intimate lunches with the stars. So many advertisements ran in the Hollywood trade journals that rival studio boss Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was backing Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, had to increase spending just to stay in the race.
>Then it got ugly. Damaging reports surfaced about the historical accuracy of Ryan. Some film journalists alleged that Miramax publicists had leaned on them to criticise Spielberg's film, the front-runner for best picture. Miramax championed Shakespeare's leading lady, Gwyneth Paltrow, as her competitors, including Cate Blanchett and Emily Watson, were denounced for the heinous crime of not being American. The result: Shakespeare In Love won seven Oscars, including best film and best actress.
Juan Carter
Scorsese even released a 3d movie post-Avatar.
Xavier Sanchez
Shakespeare in Love is pretty gr8 tho.
Jason Davis
Greatness takes time
Cooper Gutierrez
LOL, he literally said he's going to make a trilogy as a backdoor to the original alien starting with A:C and that he feels he could make 6 more alien movies now
Charles Scott
I remember fapping buckets to that in high school.
Hunter Gonzalez
try having an Egyptian mummy fetish and watching that unravelling scene.
there was an alien sex scene with a penis silhouette
John Lopez
>On how many movies are you? >Like, 2 or 3 >You are like little baby, watch this
Oliver Taylor
Is this going to be Cameron's first blunder?
Wyatt Hill
>tfw watching that scene in English class My teacher was a sadistic bastard.
David Thompson
this nigga's so lazy he's just waiting until he can film the sequels on location
Nathan Hernandez
>For me, the problem was that the Na'vi were TOO perfect. agreed and the humans acted in such ridiculously stupid ways
>send Jake to be a scout and diplomat to the Na'vi >he actually does his fucking job for once and destroys a $100 camera mounted on a multi million dollar bulldozer to prevent them from doing something supremely stupid like destroying a forest sacred to the natives >in response to this they haphazardly pull him out of the machine despite warnings that it could kill him and then punch him (a harmless cripple) in the face