If James Cameron never makes another Avatar film , he’s happy where this new one leaves things off. Speaking with io9 about that new film, Avatar: Fire and Ash , the writer and director of some of the greatest sequels of all time pushed back on calling this film a sequel, instead describing the first three films as one saga and the last two as another. Which is why, if those films don’t happen , he’s okay leaving it here.

“I think you’ve got a little bit of experience with sequels and how you have to deliver beyond the audience’s expectation, take them from the familiar to the new each time,” Cameron said. “I don’t think of Fire and Ash as a sequel. I think it was a culmination of a saga. I like ‘saga’ better than ‘sequel’ because a lot of where we were going with the story

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