The delay on Avatar 2’s release date has ultimately helped Avatar 3, claims James Cameron. Work on the ambitious sequels has been going at a frenetic pace as of late, now that previous COVID-19 delays are—for the time being—out of the way.
Cameron recently completed filming on Avatar 2, leaving the acclaimed blockbuster filmmaker three more sequels in the groundbreaking franchise to complete. The road to completion on Avatar 2 has been a very lengthy one, fraught with no fewer than six delays. At the same time, however, Cameron has built a career on taking the long road. It could be argued that his films reach the technical heights and box office success that they do as a direct result of the time and precision involved. Still, delays are a very difficult thing to deal with on any film production, and even more so when dealing with a pandemic that doesn’t seem to have any end in sight. Fortunately for Cameron, however, the delays imposed upon his Avatar films have ended up working to his advantage, even if it means that fans will have to wait that much longer.
In a new interview via Arnold Schwarzenegger’s YouTube channel, the Terminator and Cameron discussed the Avatar sequels’ production and where things currently lie. Of course, simply because Avatar 2 had its release date bumped back to 2022 doesn’t mean that the famed director now has a year to kick back and relax. Nothing could be further from the truth, in fact, now that the sequel has completed production. What it does mean is that there will now be even more time to work on Avatar 3, which as it happens, Cameron says is currently about 95% complete:
Well Covid hit us like it hit everybody—it hit us hard. We lost about four and a half months of production. As a result of that, we rolled around one more full year for a release in December of ’22. That’s been, that’s been announced already. Now that doesn’t mean that I have an extra year to finish the film, because the day we deliver Avatar 2 we’ll just start working on finishing Avatar 3. So where we are right now, I’m down in New Zealand shooting—we’re shooting the remainder of the live action, we’ve got about ten percent left to go. We’re a hundred percent complete on Avatar 2, and we’re sort of ninety-five percent complete on Avatar 3.
It’s strange to think that a delay could be helpful, but Cameron appears to be quite positive about the entire thing. Avatar 3 is currently set for a 2024 release, which at present feels like a very long way away. This is partly due to the uncertainty of the state of COVID, which has continued to push numerous films’ release dates back much further than originally expected. One can only hope that the pandemic will be a thing of the past by the time Avatar 2 is set to be released, because as things currently stand, Cameron is taking a sizeable risk making four sequels without knowing how well Avatar 2 will do. Of course, many would argue that it’s James Cameron and that if anyone seems to have the magic recipe for blockbusters, it’s him.
Only time will tell how all of this unfolds, but for now, at least, the prospect of Avatar 2 already being complete and Avatar 3 very near completion as well is exciting. Cinema hasn’t had a major shake-up for some time now and Cameron’s sequels are quite possibly just the thing to do it. There’s a long road ahead until Avatar 2 arrives, but when it does, there’s a good chance that it will have been worth the wait.
Source: Arnold Schwarzenegger via YouTube
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