James Cameron Has a Script for Avatar 5

The director is juggling four sequels.

Avatar composer James Horner has revealed that James Cameron is currently juggling four screenplays in the quest to create three sequels to his 2009 sci-fi film.

"Right now Jim has. four sequels script-wise, and he’s trying to make it into three," Horner told HeyUGuys. "And that is where his effort is going right now, to keep it to three sequels. Because he’s got so much going on…trying to keep it from expanding into a fifth movie".

Earlier this year, it was revealed that Cameron's ambition to shoot his sequels back-to-back will see a delay in production. The next installment will hit theaters Christmas 2017, a year later than originally planned.

"There's nothing I need to say as an artist about the state of the world and human affairs that I can't do through the lens of the Avatar universe," Cameron said. "We've had a couple of years to think through the story arc of the next three films, and every day that goes by, I believe in the stories I'm telling more and more. We're not coming out of the block fast to capitalize on the last film."

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