It can be recalled that “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” is now the third all-time highest grossing movie next only to “Avatar” and “Titanic.” Disney Pictures would leave no stones unturned in ensuring that “Star Wars 8” would also be good and worthy of making it to the list of highest-grossing movies of all time.
Pitting the two heavyweights at the box-office at the same time or about the same time would surely take a toll on the box-office potentials of each movie and they would surely find it difficult to make it to the top while trying to outdo each other.
The decision of 20th Century Fox to remove “Avatar 2” from its second playdate of December 25, 2017 may be a sublime statement that it does not want to compete with a possible blockbuster in the box-office because it would only ruin the chances of the sequel to gun for the record of the original film.
Based on latest reports, filming and principal photography for “Avatar 2” will begin on April 15 and it shall take place in New Zealand and Manhattan Beach, California.
There is also the possibility that the push back on the release date of “Avatar 2” has something to do with the huge technical requirements of James Cameron which would need more time.
That’s in addition to the fact that James Cameron will be filming not only “Avatar 2” but also “Avatar 3” and “Avatar 4” in one production, thus justifying the need for more time.
Cameron will be incarnating Lieutenant Quarich and Grace Augustine through the Tree of Spirits and their DNA. In 1997 my agent Jerry Smith sent out 2 IPs to Fox “Bats and Butterflies” and “Tree Dwellers”. I sued Cameron and Fox and lost due to the convoluted copyright laws that were meant to protect the studios and not the writers. Cameron and company ruined my future and stole something “Ethereal” from me. Nothing will replace such loss.