Cameron reveals he’s written scripts up to Avatar 5

Finally... I hope he makes some great films. It's an insanely ambitious thing he's attempting, but I hope he succeeds. The more quality films we have, the better.

I know what you mean. The first film was a bit of a slog; I had most decidedly had more than enough when it ended, and the thought of four more makes me feel weary.

There's also a chance that it will take so long for the fifth to be released that by then real-world technology will have caught up with the first.

Maybe, maybe not. Having two huge hitters in December could be an effective way of driving away all other potential competition (one movie alone might encourage counter-programming). And maybe there's something like the Efficient Market Hypothesis operating here: it might be that distributors are so cleverly shuffling their schedules every bit of real estate is equally crowded, relative to what the market can bear at that time of year, that December is no worse than any other time.

With Avatar, I can't conceive how there could possibly be a big market for more of this stuff - but then I could have sworn (and others could have sworn too) that after each Transformers movie, that would be it: the next one was sure to flop.

Loved the first one and am a huge Cameron fan but I really wish he went on to do Battle Angel instead. Hope its not a total disaster handing it over to Rodriguez.
Anyway, I've got faith in Cameron for the sequels.

I like the Avatar world and he clearly has stories to tell. I thought the first one was visually spectacular and I'm excited to see what innovated special effects he's going to come up with.

Did any of you know that many years ago, James Cameron was actually going to write a Script for "ALIEN 5" and Ridley Scott was going to Direct it but it didn't happen because the Studio decided to do "AVP: ALIEN vs. PREDATOR" instead.

Well good luck, but I don't know exactly what the plan for long standing appeal is. Star Wars has fantastic characters and epic storylines. Avatar, as great as the visuals might be...you can't remember or care much about any of its characters. The emotional connection is not there at all. I mean I'm sure the movies will still be watchable, in a "wow this alien water world is very cool" kind of sci-fi Natural Geographic way, but I'll be (pleasantly) surprised if it achieves something more than that.