James Cameron may not direct Avatar 4 and 5. He says the franchise has been an all-consuming, and since he has other projects he wants to develop, he is considering letting another director take over. Avatar: The Way of Water teaser trailer released in May, earning a record-setting 1.46 million views during its first weekend, now with nearly 23 million views. Cameron hasn’t shared what projects are next, but he has handed off his ideas to other directors before (e.g., Robert Rodriguez with Alita: Battle Angel).
“The Avatar films themselves are kind of all-consuming,” Cameron admits. “I’ve got some other things I’m developing as well that are exciting. I think eventually over time – I don’t know if that’s after three or after four – I’ll want to pass the baton to a director that I trust to take over, so I can go do some other stuff that I’m also interested in. Or maybe not. I don’t know.”
Source: Empire
regardless..... number of f*cks given for Avatar sequels = zero
The first blue person "Dances with Wolves / Pocahontas" was bad enough, or so I'm told. I never bothered watching it.
The sequels are probably only worse. Who knows. I'm not going to waste my time even reading reviews.
Ditto
Another person for me to be jealous of. Your brain cells did not go to waste.
List of films produced back-to-back - Wikipedia
I thought I would be able to come up with more examples than BTTF 2 + 3 (fine), superman 1 + 2 (liked them as a kid anyway). But Matrix 2 + 3 definitely failed.
LOTR is in it's own category.
The studio execs totally jacked those movies. Donner had a great vision for them.
I'm so thankful that I've forgotten most of those two movies.
But no... they had to make Neo the robot Jesus and just piss all over everything that was cool about the franchise.