James Cameron opens up on Avatar and new film Fire and Ash, and film-making’s future
Cameron reflects on his history with Avatar and what is next for him as he approaches what he calls a crossroads
James Cameron recently turned 71 as he was bringing his third Avatar film, Fire and Ash, to the finishing line.
By any measure, the Avatar series is one of the largest undertakings by a filmmaker. Cameron has dedicated a huge chunk of his life to it. Now, as he prepares to unveil the latest chapter of his Na’vi opus in December, he is approaching what he calls a crossroads.
“As you get older, you start to think of time in a slightly different way,” Cameron says from his 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) organic farm in New Zealand. “It’s not an infinite resource.”
Two more Avatar films are already written and have release dates, in 2029 and 2031.
At the moment, Cameron is focused on completing Fire and Ash, which is almost guaranteed to be the biggest film of the winter. To get Avatar – a franchise already worth US$5.2 billion in worldwide ticket sales – back in the minds of cinema-goers, The Way of Water will also be re-released in the US next month.