James Cameron’s Avatar sequel trilogy was always going to be an ambitious project, and getting the first new movie into theaters in 2016 was going to be a very tall order considering they were are shooting all three follow-ups at once.
Indeed, it looks like everything is going to be pushed back a year, as Cameron told the AP that each film would now be released one year later than initially planned. The accelerated schedule was simply too much, it seems. “There’s a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don’t get when you’re making a stand-alone film,” Cameron said, and given the huge financial investment it makes sense for the director to take his time and get it right.
If you need to get your fix of blue creatures interacting with one another before then, there’s always Blue Man Group?
[via Deadline]
