--- description: 'Avatar 2' will come out in 2018. title: James Cameron Announces 4 'Avatar' Sequels image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8286e7c3d89a3957/69888f37a988ca24676b76d0/avatar-sequels-announced.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [movies](/tag/movies/) ## movies Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # James Cameron Announces 4 _Avatar_ Sequels by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2016 7:44 PM CUT  Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in "Avatar." Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in "Avatar."Twentieth Century Fox by [Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly](/author/entertainment-weekly/) ## Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Apr 14, 2016 7:44 PM CUT Good news for Sam Worthington! At 20th Century Fox’s CinemaCon presentation Thursday, director James Cameron took the stage to announce that his vision for the _Avatar_ franchise has expanded further. “We’ve begun to bump up against the limitations of our art form,” said Cameron. “There’s just too much story.” And so: There will be four _Avatar_ sequels. You should be suspicious of any promises about release dates, but Cameron outlined a Christmas release schedule for the films: _Avatar 2_ in Christmas 2018; _Avatar 3_ in Christmas 2020; _Avatar 4_ in Christmas 2022; and _Avatar 5_ in Christmas 2023\. “Each one of which stands alone,” Cameron promised, “but which together form a complete saga.” The presentation ended with Cameron showing off some concept art for the next four _Avatar_ movies. Lots of green and blue, and I think I saw an alien turtle swimming. Fingers crossed, _Avatar 5_ will be all about that turtle. _This_ [_article_](http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/14/avatar-james-cameron-four-sequels?xid=entertainment-weekly%5Fsocialflow%5Ftwitter "undefined") _originally appeared on_ [_EW.com_](http://www.ew.com "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4294485/avatar-sequels/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4294485/avatar-sequels/"},"headline":"James Cameron Announces 4 Avatar Sequels","datePublished":"2016-04-14T19:44:37.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:46:02.064Z","description":"'Avatar 2' will come out in 2018","url":"https://time.com/4294485/avatar-sequels/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8286e7c3d89a3957/69888f37a988ca24676b76d0/avatar-sequels-announced.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Darren Franich / Entertainment Weekly"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt8286e7c3d89a3957/69888f37a988ca24676b76d0/avatar-sequels-announced.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"avatar-sequels-announced","caption":"Zoe Saldana as Neytiri in \"Avatar.\"","creditText":"Twentieth Century Fox","representativeOfPage":true}],"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/4294485/avatar-sequels/","name":"James Cameron Announces 4 Avatar Sequels"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Universe of Avatar","description":"Joel Moore plays Norm Spellman in James Cameron's Avatar; he offers Techland a first glimpse at the wondrous world of Pandora","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/J1o8Mm4J/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-12-10T06:12:48.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/J1o8Mm4J.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/4294485/avatar-sequels/","duration":"PT6M21S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/4294485/avatar-sequels/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```