'Avatar' sequels pushed back a year because writing is hard — mashable.com

LOS ANGELES — An Avatar sequel in 2016 turned out to be unobtainable. James Cameron told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he's delaying the release of the first of three Avatar sequels, which will be shot simultaneously and released in three consecutive years, to 2017. "There's a layer of complexity in getting the story to work as a saga across three films that you don't get when you're making a standalone film," Cameron told the AP during an interview in New Zealand, where the first Avatar was shot. The director added that he hopes to have all three scripts done by the end of January, and wants them to function as a whole, while also being satisfying individually.

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