James Cameron Gives Update On Next Two ‘Avatar’ Films: “Still Floating Out There”

As Avatar fans await the fourth and fifth titles in the franchise, James Cameron is mapping out a more efficient route to Pandora.

The 3x Oscar winner recently gave an update on the next two upcoming entries in the franchise following last year’s Avatar: Fire and Ashnoting that he’s working on a way to make the movies “in half the time for two thirds of the cost” it took to make the previous entries, including Avatar (2009) and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).

“After that, I’m like Roadrunner going off a cliff,” he said on The Empire Film Podcast about what’s in store after Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D). “I’ll be doing some writing, I’ve got a number of projects I’m cooking. And Avatar 4 and 5 are still floating out there.”

Cameron continued, “We’re gonna be looking at some new technologies to try and do them more efficiently, because they’re hideously expensive and take a long time. I want to do them in half the time for two thirds of the cost, that’s my metric. And so, it’s going to take us a year or so to figure out how to do that. And in the meantime, I’ll be writing and probably be doing a couple of other things.”

The creator of the $987M franchise previously noted that he will “hold a press conference” if he decides not to continue the Avatar movies, adding, “I don’t know if the saga goes beyond this point. I hope it does. But, you know, we prove that business case every time we go out.”

Cameron also noted that, despite there being “no business model for it anymore,” he also wants to novelize the films, noting “it might be good to have the canonical record of what it was all supposed to be.”

Despite already filming some scenes for Avatar 4Cameron previously said on Deadline’s Behind the Lens of the possibility of another film, “I always say ‘if,’ but will it be profitable enough, and only we will know that.”