Sigourney Weaver 'In Denial' About Avatar Potentially Coming to an End With Fire and Ash Following James Cameron Comments, Says if Fans Go to See It More Than Once Avatar 4 Will Happen

Last month, Avatar writer and manager James Cameron acceptable the feline among the pigeons erstwhile helium revealed helium was acceptable to locomotion distant from the franchise if Avatar: Fire and Ash doesn’t marque capable nett to person Disney to bankroll Avatar 4 and 5.

The peculiar effects-heavy Avatar films outgo a immense magnitude of wealth to produce, but they person historically made billions of dollars astatine the container office. Avatar: Fire and Ash, owed retired successful December, is expected to travel suit — and the unit is connected to present for Disney truthful Cameron tin recognize his imaginativeness and merchandise Avatar 4 and 5 implicit the adjacent six years.

Speaking connected The Town with Matthew Belloni podcast, Cameron admitted helium was feeling tense astir Avatar: Fire and Ash’s container bureau performance, and was mindful of the “forces” moving against theatrical releases successful 2025.

There’s the imaginable for “sequelitis,” Cameron noted. "People thin to disregard sequels unless it’s the 3rd Lord of the Rings movie and you privation to spot what happens to everybody, which successful my caput this is — this is the culmination of a communicative arc, but that whitethorn not beryllium however the nationalist sees it.”

And there’s the “one-two punch” of streaming and Covid, which means less radical are going to the movies — 75% of the fig successful 2019, Cameron suggested.

When pressed connected however overmuch Avatar: Fire and Ash outgo to make, Cameron wouldn’t beryllium drawn into divulging a figure, lone suggesting it was a batch of money, and truthful the movie volition person to marque a batch of wealth to crook a profit.

“It is 1 metric f**k ton of money, which means we person to marque 2 metric f**k tons of wealth to marque a profit,” helium said. “I person nary uncertainty successful my caput that this movie volition marque money. The question is, does it marque capable wealth to warrant doing it again?”

James Cameron astatine the satellite premiere of Avatar: The Way of Water connected December 06, 2022 successful London, England. Photo by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Images for Disney.

And connected that point, Cameron admitted helium was “absolutely” acceptable to locomotion distant from Avatar if Fire and Ash flops.

“I’ve been successful Avatar onshore for 20 years,” helium said. “Actually 30 years due to the fact that I wrote it successful ‘95, but I wasn’t moving continuously connected it for those archetypal 10 years. Yeah, absolutely, sure. If this is wherever it ends, cool.”

But what astir unfastened communicative threads?

“There’s 1 unfastened thread. I’ll constitute a book!” Cameron responded.

Now, successful an interrogation with IGN, Avatar prima Sigourney Weaver refused to reply questions astir however she would consciousness astir the franchise if it were to travel to an end, pursuing Cameron’s comments. That’s because, she said, she’s “in denial.”

“I'm not going to reply that question due to the fact that I'm successful denial,” Weaver, who plays Kiri, said. “And also, if everybody truly goes to spot the movie and particularly possibly goes backmost again due to the fact that they can't judge what they saw the archetypal time, which is what I was, we volition get to marque it.”

Sigourney Weaver astatine the satellite premiere of Avatar: Fire and Ash successful Hollywood, California connected December 1, 2025. Photo by Jesse Grant/Getty Images for 20th Century Studios.

It was astatine this constituent that Weaver dropped a imaginable spoiler for Avatar 3 and, assuming it happens, Avatar 4.

Warning! Potential Avatar: Fire and Ash and Avatar 4 spoilers follow:

In our interview, Weaver said she’s hopeless to proceed making Avatar movies due to the fact that her character, Kiri, is meant to beryllium the narrator of Avatar 4. “So, Kiri is the narrator of the adjacent one,” she revealed. “So, I truly person to marque those movies.”

Kiri is the adopted teenage Na'vi girl of Jake and Neytiri Sully successful the Avatar films. She is the biologic girl of Dr. Grace Augustine's avatar body, which became large aft Grace's death. Kiri has a unsocial and almighty transportation to Eywa, the beingness unit of Pandora, with abilities that spell acold beyond those of immoderate different Na'vi. As Cameron has already confirmed, the narrator of Fire and Ash is Lo’ak, Jake and Neytiri's 2nd son, and the program is to person a antithetic narrator for each of the sequels. Now we cognize who that volition beryllium successful Avatar 4.

Avatar 4 is down for merchandise connected December 21, 2029, with Avatar 5 owed retired December 19, 2031. Cameron, present 71, would beryllium adjacent to 80 years aged by the clip it each wraps up.

Avatar remains the highest-grossing movie of each clip (not adjusted for inflation), and has earned a staggering $2.9 cardinal crossed respective theatrical runs. (Avengers: Endgame overtook Avatar for a little period, earlier Avatar past stole its crown backmost via a caller re-release.) 2022 sequel Avatar: The Way of Water earned $2.3 billion, meanwhile, cementing it arsenic the third-highest grossing movie of each clip — conscionable up of Cameron's ain Titanic, which floats connected $2.2 billion.

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