‚Avatar: Fire and Ash‘ is opening December 19; its sequels aren’t slated to arrive until 2029 and 2031.
The first two Avatar movies grossed over $5 billion combined. It’s a staggering number that Disney surely thinks will be added to handsomely on December 19 when the third film, Avatar: Fire and Ash, hits theaters. Director James Cameron thinks that too, but he still isn’t 100% sure if it will make quite enough for him to continue the franchise.
As it stands now, Avatar 4 is scheduled for release four years after this film, on December 21, 2029, with the fifth and final film two years after that, on December 19, 2031. But, in a new interview, Cameron explains why there is a slight chance those films might not happen, and why the gap between them will actually be beneficial.
“The big swing in all of this is, do we make any money with Avatar 3?” Cameron said in an interview with Variety. “I mean, we’ll make some money. But the question is, what kind of a profit margin, if any, is there, and how much of an inducement is that to continue on in this universe? Or maybe we wait a while until we figure out how to bring costs down.
