Although James Cameron has been in his “blue period” since launching the Avatar franchise in 2009, the director is seeing green over what could have been.

The 3x Oscar winner revealed he almost took on Wicked movie musical adaptation as he noted that movies have “to be an event” these days for studios to give them big budgets and for audiences to see them in theater.

“The kind of movies that I like to watch, let’s say Dune or even Wicked ,” he explained on The Town with Matt Belloni podcast. “I almost made Wicked back when. I really love the story, I mean The Wizard of Oz is one of my favorite [movies]. This is going back 15 years.”

Confirming he met with Universal Pictures about his take on the 1995 Gregory Maguire book, turned 2003 Broadway musical, Cameron s

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