James Cameron and 20th Century Fox Give You The Franchise No One Wanted: AVATAR 2-4

 

I sure hope you liked AVATAR, because you'll be seeing a shit load of these zany blue bastards until at least 2018.

20th Century Fox apparently put out a release today, mentioning that Josh Friedman (War of the Worlds), the duo behind Rise of the Planet of the Apes as well as Jurassic Park IV, Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver, and Shane Salerno who brought us last summer's SAVAGES will all be helping James "Raising the Bar" Cameron to raise the bar even further with AVATAR 4 to be filmed in 5-D. 

The three pictures will be filmed simultaneously with production beginning next year. The release of the first sequel will be in December 2016, with the second to follow in December 2017, and the third a year later. Avatar 2, 3, and 4 will be produced by Cameron and Jon Landau through their Lightstorm Entertainment banner. Like the original film, Lightstorm will work with Joe Letteri and his team at WETA Digital to realize the worlds of the sequels.

James Cameron also went on to say he was pretty happy about churning these things out for you guys, instead of filming something people actually want to see, like his movie about the ill-fated deep sea diver, Audrey Mestre, The Dive, or Battle Angel Alita or something else cool and original.

"Building upon the world we created with Avatar has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen. And to help me continue to expand this universe, I'm pleased to bring aboard Amanda, Rick, Shane and Josh -- all writers I've long admired -­ to join me in completing the films screenplays."

20th Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos said:

"We at the studio have no higher priority, and can feel no greater joy, than enabling Jim to continue and expand his vision of the world of Avatar.' The growing breadth and scale of Jim Cameron's plans for his magnificent fantasy worlds continue to amaze us all."

Well there you have it, you'll keep getting blue cat people and you'll love it. Given that AVATAR was the #1 Movie of All Time That Changed Cinema Forever, it's gonna be a bright future for people who consider themselves 'Neytiri-fetishists'.