According to the Associated Press, AVATAR creator and director James Cameron has stated that the first of the AVATAR sequels will be delayed until late 2017, a year later than expected.
Three sequels are planned, with the releases staggered across three years. The first sequel which was originally intended to open in theaters in later 2016 would have been the perfect spring-board for the Disney's Animal Kingdom AVATAR land opening in early 2017. Disney and Cameron are expected to be using elements from the sequels in the new land, which now will open before the movies hit the screens.
"We're writing three simultaneously. And we've done that so that everything tracks throughout the three films. We're not just going to do one and then make up another one and another one after that," Cameron said. "And parallel with that, we're doing all the design. So we've designed all the creatures and the environments."
The original AVATAR movie is the highest grossing movie of all time, taking nearly $2.8 billion at the box office.
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