--- title: 'Avatar' Sequels: There May Be 4 More Movies description: James Cameron "has got four sequels, script-wise," reveals 'Avatar' composer canonical: https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/ author: Entertainment Weekly article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-04-29T14:40:43.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T06:46:39.515Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: There May Be 4 'Avatar' Sequels on the Way og:description: James Cameron "has got four sequels, script-wise," reveals 'Avatar' composer og:url: https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There May Be 4 'Avatar' Sequels on the Way twitter:description: James Cameron "has got four sequels, script-wise," reveals 'Avatar' composer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There May Be 4 _Avatar_ Sequels on the Way by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2015 2:40 PM UTC by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](https://time.com/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Apr 29, 2015 2:40 PM UTC _Avatar_ is still the highest grossing movie ever made, although technically if you adjust for inflation that honor belongs to _Gone with the Wind_. But _Gone with the Wind_ never had any movie sequels. Conversely, _Avatar_ director and beloved deep-sea adventurer James Cameron has decided to spend this decade of human history making nothing but _Avatar_ sequels. As of [a few months ago](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/01/14/james-cameron-delays-avatar-sequels), the plan was for _Avatar 2_ to hit theaters in 2017, followed by _Avatar 3_ and _Avatar 4_ in 2018 and 2019. But now, longtime Cameron collaborator James Horner has revealed a tantalizing bit of pre-production details from Behind the Cameron Curtain. Apparently, Cameron and his many screenwriting collaborators have somehow produced enough script material for four movies. Horner tells [Hey U Guys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRsXl7kcSDw): _Right now, Jim has got four sequels, script-wise, and he’s trying to make it into three. And that’s where his effort is going, right now, to keep it to three sequels. Because he’s got so much going on. How do you keep it from expanding into yet a fourth movie—a fifth movie, I guess, total. He’ll get that sorted out._ It’s unclear if this is just a development-phase act of editing down a wealth of material, or if there is actually a serious consideration of transforming the _Avatar_ sequel trilogy into an _Avatar_ sequel quadrilogy, or if maybe the fourth script is an exciting prequel-spinoff _Avatar Anthology_ _: Unobtanium Rising_. When I spoke to _Avatar_ [sequel writers Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver](http://www.ew.com/article/2014/07/11/dawn-apes-avatar-2-jurassic-world) last year, they described the process of writing the movies with the _Avatar_ brain trust (which includes Cameron and fellow writers Josh Friedman and Shane Salerno)—an initial lengthy process of brainstorming the master story, at which point different writers broke off to work on specific films. On one hand: Information is still scarce about _Avatar_, and even Horner seems to think Cameron just wants to make three movies. One the other hand: We live in a world where _The Hobbit_ became a trilogy and every disappointing YA finale gets adapted into two movies. So why not _Avatar 5_? As long as they get Leona Lewis to do the theme song. Remember Leona Lewis? Remember _Avatar_? Ah, to be young again! _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/04/28/or-maybe-james-cameron-will-make-four-avatar-sequels) _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com)_._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/"},"headline":"There May Be 4 Avatar Sequels on the Way","datePublished":"2015-04-29T14:40:43.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T06:46:39.515Z","description":"James Cameron \"has got four sequels, script-wise,\" reveals Avatar composer","url":"https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3839931/avatar-sequels-james-cameron/","name":"There May Be 4 Avatar Sequels on the Way"}}]}] ```