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In a few days, Canadian director James Cameron will celebrate his 70th birthday. The master of epic films (“Titanic”, “Rambo”, “Avatar”, “Solaris”) recently hit the jackpot with the second part of “Avatar” – the total box office grossed more than 2.2 billion dollars – and now he could easily retire. But appetite, as you know, comes with food. And now Cameron is not only developing the third, fourth and fifth parts of the fantastic franchise about the blue men, but is also going to bring back Terminator.
KP has already written about how James is going to “stop time” to film the sequel to Avatar. Now new details of the project have emerged. The third part has been given the subtitle “Fire and Ashes” and also the logo – a burning letter A with a Phoenix inside.
“Fire symbolizes hatred, violence, abuse of power,” the director explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly. “Ashes shows the consequences of all this destructive energy, the pain and the need to live with what has already happened.
Later, in another interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Cameron announced powerful ambitions: to film all the parts of Avatar personally (before that, there was discussion of transferring the project to another director), because he was “full of energy.”
“These stories are simply amazing and deserve to be brought to the screen,” says the Canadian. “But listen, someone else will only become a director if I get hit by a bus or if I am connected to a ventilator.”
James also let slip that he was preparing the return of Terminator, almost 35 years after the release of the second part of the action film he filmed. The super-secret project in the Terminator universe that Cameron is working on will have nothing to do with the Terminator Zero series, released on August 29 of this year.
“I don’t want to send you a potentially dangerous robot agent if you tell anyone about this,” the director joked in a conversation with a journalist, hinting at the deep secrecy in which the premiere is kept. – Even casually.
By the way, before this, the first photo from the filming of the third part of Avatar was shared on social media by producer Jon Landau.
“Every Avatar movie is exciting and epic, but it takes time to bring it to the level of quality that we, the filmmakers, strive for and that the audience expects,” the producer captioned the photo, where the franchise’s heroes are visible at the director’s console. “The team is hard at work and can’t wait for viewers to return to Pandora in December 2025.”
The third Avatar film is scheduled for release on December 19, 2025, the fourth in 2029, and the fifth in 2031.
