James Cameron Isn’t Worried About Avatar Films

When Avatar (the James Cameron film) it set the world on fire with its gorgeous visuals and all-new world. It set records that last to this day, and so when a sequel was announced, it was kind of obvious. Yet, it’s been a long time, and the sequel hasn’t come out. We have gotten an amusement park from it though, and during its opening, James Cameron spoke with IGN and revealed that that he isn’t worried about the delay one bit:

“I don’t worry about it. I mean, my sequel for Terminator, Terminator 2, came out seven years later. My sequel for Aliens, from Ridley Scott‘s film Alien, came out seven years later. We’re now a little bit behind that timeline at seven and a half years to start production, to start shooting, but that was because we decided to do the four [sequels] as one big project. And getting four scripts right, as you can imagine, it is four times as hard as getting one script right. And this is not just about getting it right. This is about getting it great. Because people are not going to settle for okay, or more of the same. But, you know, it’s that great sequel challenge. Will it still move me, will it still feel fresh, will I be surprised, but not so surprised that I feel betrayed? And we all know we all have our opinions about the sequels to the movies we love, and whether that worked or not.”