Avatar: James Cameron now making four sequels for some reason

Presumably there is a human being out there who wants to watch them.

Before 2009, watching films in 3D at the cinema wasn’t really the done thing. That all changed after James Cameron’s Avatar was released, quickly becoming the highest-grossing film of all time.

Nine years on, in 2018 and despite 3D now being commonplace, Cameron will finally release the follow-up to the fantasy epic, but it won't stop there. According to Variety, the director has at least four more sequels set for release.

At first, the director had only planned two sequels, but after a meeting with “some of the top artists and designers in the world,” he realised he had too much material, so he said there would be three sequels. Now, he’s made the jump to four.

“So far, what I am seeing in pure imagination is far beyond the first film,” Cameron told the trade magazine. The report details how, while not many have seen the concept art, those who have were left “speechless”.

“We have decided to embark on a truly massive cinematic project, making four epic films, each of which stands alone but together forms a complete saga,” he continued.

The expansion of Avatar sequels may come as a surprise to some, given the initial film has not aged particularly well.

In a previous update, Cameron described how the characters, settings, and creatures were ‘pretty much done’, adding how he doesn’t think the first film was a ‘fluke’.