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[BlueTsunami]

Huh whut? James Cameron was in my town, in rural Canada, just a couple days ago investing in an organic pea farm.

What was he doing here when shooting starts this close?

Maybe the premise of this film involves non GMO carbon neutral pea farming

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Does this movie even need to exist?

No.

But then, "the need to exist" is an absurd metric anyway.

 

[HyperZone<3]

and here I was thinking Cameron's perfectionist 3D remaster of Terminator 2 (which was frigging awesome) itself set back Avatar another year.

 

[JimmyRustler]

Came in to post the "it'sbeen84years.gif"

Dang it... too late.

Can't believe they finally start shooting this shit. The new movies are going to be the most epic thing cinema has ever seen. Mark my words. Never doubt Cameron.

 

[Discotheque]

Sam Worthington is sure hoping so

This is hilarious. Anyways I eagerly await that trailer in like 2 or 3 years or whatever. The spectacle will likely be insane

 

[NHarmonic.]

I almost forgot James Cameron was a film director for a bit.

I can't wait to see this literally be the only theatrical release in its month because everyone else is just getting the heck out of its way.

The avatar and 3D fad is over since long time ago, avatar 2 won't get half of the viewers the first had.

 

[llien]

Hm, I'm not getting the plot, it's not like he had nothing else to do:

PS
Wow, I thought "Avatar 5" was a joke.

 

[kurahador]

Cameron first flop, Avatar fatigue, etc...

 

[O.v.e.rlord]

20 bucks says it's pushed back before it starts

 

[True Savior]

Will Tom Arnold be there?

 

[strafer]

Arnold needs to be in one of these before he leaves us.

 

[liquidtmd]

20 bucks says it's pushed back before it starts

Cameron, Sunday night: "Need to push it to 2022. Realised this morning I need to build a new planet to film this on, and also invent a new form of camera since I don't like the existing tech. Script wise, meh yeah they are done"

 

[Corpsepyre]

Wow. Worthington is back? Couldn't they have just recasted that role for someone more engaging? The dude's career went down the hole since as well.

 

[HariKari]

Wow. Worthington is back? Couldn't they have just recasted that role for someone more engaging? The dude's career went down the hole since as well.

He's cheap. Somebody with more pull would want a big chunk of those four movies.

 

[dmshaposv]

ABADAH CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

ABADAH

I'm shocked it took 65 posts.

 

[massoluk]

Awesome, hope they ditch Shyamalan and start back at the beginning with Wan

 

[Maddness]

Does this movie even need to exist?

No. Cameron is one of my favorite directors. Now we are stuck with him making Avatar sequels for the rest of his career. I'd rather watch him make a reboot of Air Bud than this shit.

 

[half a moon]

3 year gap between Avatar 3 and Avatar 4.

One year gaps otherwise.

Why so long between 3 and 4?

 

[Joe Shlabotnik]

Cameron made two completely different movies 12 years apart and they made $600 and $700 million US respectively, not adjusted for inflation.

I saw Avatar once and mostly forgot about it, I dont really think the movie stuck around in pop culture, and I don’t really know what moves Cameron to make another one, to say nothing of three more—but I’m also done predicting that he can’t just will a record-breaking film into existence, because apparently he can.

A Cameron movie isn’t a flop until it flops.

 

[strafer]

I was 22 when Avatar came out and if the date on Avatar 5 is correct I will 38.

Man

 

[half a moon]

2020? Why?

 

[Evil John Locke]

 

[shira]

Why so long between 3 and 4?

Fern Gully 4 has a more nuanced plot

Cameron prolly needs more funding for outer space shooting too

 

[wazoo]

I guess? I genuinely wonder if the same interest for Avatar remains. It certainly hasn't had the same staying power of a Star Wars, or even Titanic.

Can not wait for Titanic 2.

 

[Dude Abides]

I can't wait for James Cameron to once again show Hollywood how to do strong female action heroes with strategically placed hair over their tits.

 

[Skel1ingt0n]

Still don’t know how people doubt Cameron. ESPECIALLY Cameron doing a sequel.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t adore Avatar or anything - and completely agree it has a very weak/boring story. But I have every bit of faith the sequel will be great and will do wonderfully at the BO.

All that said, I’m still not convinced we’ll ever actually see A Cameron-directed Avatar 5 in the next decade or ever.

 

[kurahador]

Still don’t know how people doubt Cameron. ESPECIALLY Cameron doing a sequel.

Could still turn out either way. Matthew Vaughn did a sequel for the first time ever and it doesn't seem to work out great.

 

[tiredheadcrab]

Its about fucking time. I think ive read about the sequels longer than I actually read about the first movie before it released.

 

[Fug Slanderson]

Came in to post the "it'sbeen84years.gif"

Dang it... too late.

Can't believe they finally start shooting this shit. The new movies are going to be the most epic thing cinema has ever seen. Mark my words. Never doubt Cameron.

I completely agree. People have no idea what they're in for. These movies are going to blow people's minds.

 

[theWB27]

4 days away? Damn that's amazing if it holds. I'm ready to see that tech.

 

[HStallion]

No amount of CGI will make Sam Worthington fun to watch.

 

[jett]

No amount of CGI will make Sam Worthington fun to watch.

His CGI self in Avatar was fine. I think the animators improved on his acting abilities.

 

[weekev]

Does this movie even need to exist?

Yes because Disney are about to spend a fucking fortune to upgrade bits of Animal Kingdom to Avatar land. So not only does it need to exist it needs to be an absolute smash hit.

 

[HStallion]

I still have no clue how there was never an Avatar animated series or something after the last movie to at least attempt to keep some buzz going about the characters and world.

 

[Sapiens]

Sept 25 is a date with no cultural impact.

 

[Deadly Cyclone]

Jim, if you need a new lead, I'm open. I think I can work well with Sam Worthington.

 

[TheJollyCorner]

Ya'll are gonna feel pr-eeeeeeee-tty silly when Avatar 5 rolls around and you're all crying big, sloppy man-tears when we say our farewells to Jake Sully.

Worthington gonna work his way into your hearts. Book it!

 

[bud]

the first movie came out in 2009. feels like that was fifteen years ago.

where has the time gone...

 

[llien]

I quite enjoyed Avatar and certainly would not doubt Cameron, who plays in league of his own.

 

[daveo42]

I still have no clue how there was never an Avatar animated series or something after the last movie to at least attempt to keep some buzz going about the characters and world.

They don't do 3D on broadcast or cable television. It would have never worked.

 

[ZeoVGM]

Wasn't Worthington literally in a big Oscar-nominated movie a year ago?

I never understood the idea that he doesn't do anything.

 

[BlackGhost]

Thought this was about the last airbender movies at first, and thought wtf. Lol

 

[Z3M0G]

So are they shooting all four sequels back-to-back?

So first movie release in 4-5 years?

This kind of needed to come out by 2012. No one cares at this point. It also rode the 3D wave, which is kind of dead by now.

Maybe T2 3D was a test of current interest... how did that do?

2020? Why?

Why so long between 3 and 4?

Going by the schedule posted above, they seem to plan to shoot the first 2, get them released, then shoot the last 2...

 

[Sulik2]

I'm actually interested in the production story of these movies. They are probably going to be much closer to how video game production functions then normal movie productions. Years long creative production chains for multiple movies at once is not the normal way Hollywood works. Probably a billion dollar investment too.

 

[ZeoVGM]

This kind of needed to come out by 2012. No one cares at this point. It also rode the 3D wave, which is kind of dead by now.

The movie is, at the very least, going to make a billion dollars.

So you're wrong in saying no one cares.

 

[Falchion]

Welp, here we go I guess.

 

[NCSOFT]

The movie is, at the very least, going to make a billion dollars.

So you're wrong in saying no one cares.

At the very least 2 Billion, because 1B might come from China alone, if it doesn't quite get there, it won't be that far away. So, even 2B could be a large underestimation at this point.

 

[Surfinn]

My question is..

Is there actually enough decent content to warrant multiple sequels of Avatar?

 

[ZeoVGM]

At the very least 2 Billion, because 1B might come from China alone, if it doesn't quite get there, it won't be that far away. So, even 2B could be a large underestimation at this point.

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