“The Avatar story arc was originally meant to be a trilogy, but I overwrite and my writers overwrote as well,” he told Variety.
Cameron’s first Avatar, released in 2009, quickly became the highest-grossing film of all time after making $2.8 billion at the global box office.
Cameron, the Oscar-winning writer and director of Titanic and The Terminator, has insisted that the studio is “very happy” with his films despite originally green-lighting only a single follow-up.
He’s been talking about them for years (well, ever since the first one smashed the box office record seven years ago, a record it holds to this day) but James Cameron has finally admitted that his planned four Avatar sequels are a result of him “overwriting”.