James Cameron Teases Unexpected Animated Avatar Project

James Cameron wants to make an animated Avatar project.

Cameron directed both films in the live-action Avatar franchise, 2009’s Avatar and 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, thus far. The third movie, Avatar: Fire and Ash, is also directed by Cameron and arrives in United States theaters this coming December.

What did James Cameron say about an animated Avatar project?

Speaking with Empire Magazine, Cameron confirmed that he’s spoken to Disney, which owns 20th Century Studios, about potentially doing an Avatar animated project.

He explained, “I said, ‘Look, I want to do an animated anthology series that’s essentially in the world, but stories that you wouldn’t have expected from that world.’ There might even be an animated feature in there – it might be a feature for streaming, or a theatrical feature. A good early example is The Animatrix, where they went afield in the Matrix world. These are all great examples for how we can add texture and baroque detail to the world of Avatar.”

Cameron further noted that these animated stories could explore “backstory on characters and tangential stuff that happened off-camera within the movies. Who first landed on Pandora? The first expedition. You could go anywhere you want.”

The project, however, hasn’t yet materialized into anything.

“We haven’t done much with that yet,” Cameron said. “We’re still gathering our stories and that sort of thing, and I’ve got to find the boutique filmmakers, the animators, that want to do it.”

In the meantime, Avatar: Fire and Ash arrives on December 19, 2025. It stars Sam Worthington as Jake Sully, Zoe Saldaña as Neytiri, Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, Stephen Lang as Colonel Miles Quaritch, Giovanni Ribisi as Parker Selfridge, Kate Winslet as Ronal, Cliff Curtis as Tonowari, Joel David Moore as Dr. Norm Spellman, Edi Falco as General Frances Ardmore, and more.

Originally reported by Brandon Schreur at SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net