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.
The actor said Cameron may have mentioned it once but he can no longer recall it. However, that is no longer important to him because what is important is that he will be returning to “Avatar 2,” something which he described as not being real at all.
Cameron also said that filming the next “Avatar” films is probably the most challenging thing he has ever done in his career, as he and his team have to keep track of the story arc while filming all four films. He even likened it to shooting all three “Godfather” films at the same time.