{"id":52977,"date":"2026-05-17T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52977"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:11:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T23:11:34","slug":"james-cameron-will-take-a-year-to-figure-out-how-to-make-avatar-4-and-5-quicker-and-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=52977","title":{"rendered":"James Cameron Will Take a Year to Figure Out How to Make Avatar 4 and 5 Quicker and Cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Titanic and Terminator director James Cameron said he’s “looking at some new technologies” to try and get Avatar 4 and 5 made “in half the time for two-thirds of the cost,” but it’s going to take a year just to figure it out.<\/p>\n

The legendary filmmaker spoke about how he plans to continue his long-in-the-works sci-fi saga during an interview with The Empire Film Podcast<\/u>. When asked what’s next for Cameron following the premiere of Avatar: Fire and Ash<\/u> and his Billie Eilish concert movie, he told The Empire Film Podcast he’s hoping to alter his process to, hopefully “more efficiently,” dive back into Pandora.<\/p>\n

“You know, I’ll be doing some writing. I’ve got a number of projects that I’m cooking,” he said. “And Avatar 4 and 5 are still floating out there. We\u2019re going to be looking at some new technologies to try to 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\u2019s my metric.”<\/p>\n

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Cameron added that it’s going to “take us a year or so” to even come up with a plan on how to more efficiently create Avatar movies going forward. In the meantime, he promised that he’ll be “writing and doing a couple of other things.”<\/p>\n

Avatar first took audiences to Pandora with the launch of the original film<\/u> in 2009, but its sequel, The Way of Water<\/u>, wouldn’t arrive until an incredible 13 years later in 2022. The three-year wait between Avatar 2 and its Fire and Ash follow-up was comparatively far less painful, but even that timeframe feels a bit on the long side for the 71-year-old director.<\/p>\n

While it’s true that all three Avatar movies have managed to cross the $1 billion mark at the box office<\/u>, Fire and Ash only made $1.48 billion compared to The Way of Water’s $2.4 billion, suggesting potentially declining interest amongst moviegoers. Adding to the sting is the last film’s reported $400 million budget<\/u>, which doesn’t account for the hundreds of millions Disney would have spent on its marketing campaign.<\/p>\n