James Cameron explains how he actually threatened to fire the Avatar sequel writers. It’s been a long road to this point for the franchise. With years passing in between the first movie and the second entry. The director sat down with Marianne Williamson to talk about the challenge of following up the highest-grossing movie in history. China has the film on screens again and people are wondering if that might stoke the fires under the sequels. For Cameron, this means going back to the first movie and finding everything that worked and the stuff that didn’t. From there, he and the team could build a roadmap of what they wanted for the three sequels. However, the filmmaker shot down most of their attempts to dive into the new subject matter before really nailing down the tone of that initial film. Luckily, it sounds like none of them had to go, but it was probably a moment of clarity for the entire team.
