Stephen Lang also confirmed that filming for “Avatar 2” and the three other sequels will begin early next year.
He was quoted as saying during the presentation panel at the World Comic Con that they will indeed start shooting for the “Avatar” sequels at the turn of the New Year.
He also knows the status of “Avatar” as the all-time highest grossing movie worldwide with its $2.7 billion box-office take when it was released in 2009. So the pressure is really on Cameron and the production team to really make good on the sequel in order to be at par if not surpass the box-office results of the original film.
Critics, however, believe that it would already be very difficult for any “Avatar” sequels to beat the original film in terms of box-office performance and only Cameron seems confident that he can beat the record that his own film set. Incidentally, the second movie in the list of all-time top-grossing movie, “Titanic,” was also helmed by James Cameron.
When “Avatar” became a record-breaking success around the world and it became a global phenomenon, Cameron told Lang that he will be coming back. Lang asked how and Cameron said that he told him about it already.