James Wan needs to direct the fourth Avatar film if James Cameron doesn’t.
The Conjuring filmmaker, 48, has thrown his hat into the ring to helm the following instalment in Cameron’s blockbuster sci-fi saga if The Terminator creator, 71, chooses to stroll away from the director’s chair to deal with different tasks.
Talking with Display Rant, Wan mentioned: “I’ve not executed Avatar. Yeah, in the event you may put a great one for me with James Cameron, I would like to take a crack at that.”
The newest instalment Avatar: Fireplace and Ash follows Na’vi Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), Neytiri (Zoe Saldana) and their household as they face a fierce new menace from the fireplace‑wielding ‘Ash Folks’ tribe led by Varang (Oona Chaplin), reigniting battle on a turbulent Pandora.
As grief and previous enemies resurface, alliances with the Metkayina clan will check their energy, religion, and survival.
The film additionally stars Sigourney Weaver as Kiri, Stephen Lang as Miles Quaritch and Kate Winslet as Ronal.
Up to now, Fireplace and Ash has impressed on the field workplace, lately passing the $1 billion mark after debuting on December 19, 2025.
Whereas Wan is eager to direct an Avatar movie, Fireplace and Ash’s industrial and important success may very well be sufficient to persuade Cameron to helm the following film, because the Titanic director had beforehand insisted he would solely make extra Avatar entries if there was a transparent viewers urge for food for them.
Throughout an look on The City with Matt Belloni podcast, Cameron mentioned: “Sequelitis. Folks are likely to dismiss sequels. Except it is the third Lord of the Rings movie and also you wish to see what occurs to all people, which in my thoughts that is.
“That is the fruits of a narrative arc, however that might not be how the general public sees it.”
The Aliens director filmmaker added Fireplace and Ash can be a becoming conclusion to the Avatar collection if it must be.
He mentioned: “I have been in Avatar land for 20 years, truly 30 years as a result of I wrote it in ’95, however I wasn’t working repeatedly on it for these first 10 years.”
Whereas he’s open to letting another person direct the fourth and fifth Avatar films, Cameron insisted he must be carefully concerned within the movies if they’re in the end made.
He defined: “Look, I’ve selections there. There are ranges by which I immerse. I may produce. I do not suppose there’d ever be one other Avatar film that I did not produce carefully.
“However when it comes to it taking on my life? That is a threshold challenge for me.”
Cameron additionally lately mentioned he’ll maintain a press convention to disclose the plot of the fourth Avatar film if the blockbuster doesn’t go forward.
He informed Leisure Weekly: “I don’t know if the saga goes past this level. I hope it does.
“However, you already know, we show that enterprise case each time we exit … If we don’t get to make 4 and 5, for no matter cause, I’ll maintain a press convention and I’ll inform you what we had been gonna do. How’s that?”
