James Cameron Briefly Talks Avatar Sequels Shooting Back To Back Surviving Cast Returns

James Cameron Briefly Talks ‘Avatar’ Sequels: Shooting Back To Back, Surviving Cast Returns

By Russ Fischer/Jan. 24, 2011 1:00 pm EST

The director told EW,

Those dates are a tiny bit more specific than what we were told when the two films were announced. (At the time, the dates were merely ‘December 2014 and 2015.’) And that he is beginning to write them now is also just confirmation of something we already knew. But the confirmation that they’d be shot back to back is new — when the films were announced the word was that the ‘back to back’ decision wouldn’t be made until after the films were written.

I am in the process of writing the next two Avatar films now. We are planning to shoot them together and post them together, and we will probably release them not quite back to back, but about a year apart. Christmas ‘14 and ‘15 is the current plan.

He adds,

So that tells us more or less who’ll be in the second film at the very least. More on this one as details are revealed; we can probably expect a big update around Comic Con.