Avatar: Fire and Ash
Summary
Avatar 3presents a challenge that James Cameron has never faced in his directorial vocation – and it need to avoid the problems suffered by the other franchises that Cameron has process on . After the phenomenal critical and commercial winner ofAvatar : The Way of Waterproved that theAvatarfranchise is n’t just a one - trick jigger , anticipation is at an all - meter high forAvatar 3 . Cameron has teased that the third movie will take audiences aside from the oceans ofThe Way of Waterto the volcano of Pandora , where the “ Ash People ” clan of the Na’vi lodge in . This newfangled context promises another explosive , action - pack sci - fi heroic poem .
In the jumper lead - up toThe Way of Water , Cameron ’s fans had no reason to be worried , because he had a proven runway record book for build satisfying subsequence . AliensandTerminator 2 : Judgment Dayhave been hailedas two of the dandy sequels ever made , work up on their Hellenic precursor with bigger , bolder , and more emotionally enriching storytelling . Very few filmmaker are as renowned for their continuation as Cameron . But third film are a whole different ballgame . Avatar 3will be the first threequel that Cameron has directedin his intact career , and they ’re a lot tricky to get right .
Avatar 3 Will Be James Cameron’s First Threequel
Cameron has never directed a threequel before , so he ’s in uncharted territory withAvatar 3 . Every motion-picture show that Cameron has train has either been an original narration , likeThe AbyssorTrue Lies , a documentary , a dramatisation of a historical event , likeTitanic , or the first sequel in a franchise . The only sequels he ’s ever directed – Aliens , T2 , and , of course , Avatar : The manner of Water – have been the second entry in a series . The second movie just has to best the original motion picture , which is no well-situated feat , but the third movie is even tougher , because it has to outdo the first pic and the 2d motion picture .
His directorial debut was a continuation , Piranha II : The Spawning , but he ’s the theatre director of that task in name only , because he was fired and replaced shortly into production . Avatarwill be the first sentence that Cameron has created his own dealership and seen it through to the end . Whereas he die off the sequels toAliensandT2to other theater director , he ’ll be at the helm of theAvatarsaga for its entire duration . He has plans to potentially go all the way toAvatar 7if the audience demand is there . But first , he has to get the threequel right .
Executive producer Ovidio G. Assonitis notoriously took over creative control ofPiranha II : The Spawningfrom Cameron .
The Third Movie In A Franchise Is Notoriously Difficult To Get Right
It ’s notoriously difficult to pull off the third entry in a motion picture franchise ; this is typically referred to as the “ threequel curse . ” There are some satisfying threequels – Toy Story 3,Before Midnight , The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King – but there are a lot more disappointing ones : Jaws 3D , Sam Raimi’sSpider - adult male 3,The Godfather Part III , hug drug - manpower : The Last Stand , The Matrix Revolutions , The Dark Knight Rises , Ant - Man and the Wasp : Quantumania . expectation are higher than ever for a third movie ( especially if the first two were really neat ) , and it ’s almost insufferable to meet those expectations .
Cameron ’s own franchises have n’t been immuneto the threequel curse in the past , but that ’s partly because he was n’t at the helm . After sequelizing Ridley Scott ’s repulsion masterpieceAlienwith the military action - packedAliens , David Fincher took overAlien 3and suffered from studio interference . TheTerminatorfranchise , which Cameron rise , has had not one , but two disappointing threequels . Jonathan Mostow’sTerminator 3 : Rise of the Machineswas criticized for being a generic actioner , and Tim Miller’sTerminator : Dark Fate , which retconned every post - T2sequel , was an overcomplicated pickle . Avatar 3needs to be much better than theAlienthreequel and either of theTerminatorthreequels .
Why There’s Still Hope For Avatar 3
Just because Cameron has never pulled off a threequel before , that does n’t intend there ’s no reason to have hope forAvatar 3 . He might not have directed a successful third movie , buthe ’s also never failed as a director . It ’s become a trend in Cameron ’s filmography that so - called experts have a bun in the oven his movies to fail and they end up being one of the handsome success stories in cinema history . That happened withTitanic , Avatar , andAvatar : The Way of Water . They were all expected to bomb , and all terminate up ranking among the big blockbusters of all sentence . Hopefully , that trend will continue inAvatar 3 .
