James Cameron's plans for Avatar are, it turns out, even more grand than it had first appeared, with the director announcing Thursday that his sci-fi movie will now get four sequels instead of the three that were announced prior to now.
For any franchise, announcing multiple sequels after just one installment — even one that remains the most successful movie of all time in terms of the worldwide box office — would be bold, but for Avatar in particular, it seems almost foolhardy.
After all, although Avatar was released less than a decade ago — it debuted on Dec. 18, 2009 — it is almost the product of a different era as time has well passed over it.
Avatar filled a gap for movie audiences that not only doesn't exist anymore, but is almost overstuffed these days with the prospect of a new Star Wars movie ever single year, in addition to the possibility of a Star Trek, or some other sci-fi property telling stories of intergalactic conflicts turning the human condition into colorful metaphor.
Sure, it was released after the first Iron Man, but before Iron Man 2, and any of the Captain Americas, Thors and Avengers that followed. Guardians of the Galaxy may not even have been a glint in the eye of Kevin Feige when Avatar was released, even though it was arguably the Marvel movie that continued what Cameron's movie had built in the most obvious fashion.
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