Fire and Ash Is the Spider-Man: Far From Home of Avatar Franchise

James Cameron recently revealed a major detail about the Avatar franchise’s structure that makes it similar to the MCU’s approach to its Infinity and Multiverse Sagas. In a new interview, the director said that Avatar: Fire and Ash would end the first saga of the action-adventure franchise, and that its sequel, Avatar 4, would begin a new saga. Previously, the MCU ended its Infinity Saga with Spider-Man: Far From Home and launched its Multiverse Saga with Black Widow.

Avatar 4 will begin a new saga if it happens

In a recent interview with iO9, James Cameron stressed that movie sequels had the task of delivering an experience beyond audience expectations and showing them something new and different. He said that he didn’t view Avatar: Fire and Ash as a “sequel” but as a “culmination of a saga.” (via Gizmodo)

“I like ‘saga’ better than ‘sequel’ because a lot of where we were going with the story was in the original architecture of the story,” he added. “So if you think of this as the third act, I think that’s healthier.”

Cameron explained that Fire and Ash was different from a standard sequel to a Hollywood film. He said that he had been playing “a long game” with this film and its predecessors, unlike Hollywood’s usual pattern of greenlighting a sequel and finding a new script following a film’s financial success. “And I went into it knowing that we’d be playing a long game and betting that the audience would come along with us and care about these people,” he further stated. “Because they may be 10 feet tall and blue, but they’re people.”

The Titanic filmmaker said that Avatar 4 and 5 would be “its own saga” if it happens. “It’s got a beginning and a middle and an end that plays out across these two films,” he elaborated. “They’re vaporware right now.”

Cameron announced that Avatar 4 had begun production at the D23 Expo in September 2022. Two years later, in an interview with Variety, he revealed that he had shot part of the fourth film, since the younger characters in the franchise would have a “big time jump” in it, and that he would only start filming the rest of the movie following Fire and Ash’s release.

Originally reported by Abdul Azim Naushad on SuperHeroHype.

Source: Comingsoon.net