
I was reading an interview with James Cameron in Variety, and they asked him about when he might get around to directing some future projects – things like Ghosts of Hiroshima and, of course, Avatar 4 and Avatar 5. He said there are other films he *might* direct, but it all really comes down to this: will Avatar 3 make enough money? He clarified that they’ll definitely *make* some money, but the real question is about the profit margin. He said that will determine how motivated he is to continue expanding the Avatar universe. Or, he suggested, they might wait a bit and figure out how to reduce production costs. He explained that everything – especially VFX – has become so incredibly expensive over the last few years, and it’s starting to make the kinds of big, ambitious films I love to make increasingly difficult to produce.