James Cameron will finish Avatar's story via press conference if he has to, damn it

Now, it’s already pretty clear that Cameron won’t have to go through with this promise, which he made to Entertainment Weekly shortly before Fire And Ash hit theaters: The film made $500 million in its first week in theaters, which, while a slight drop in comparison to Avatar and sequel Way Of Water, still demolishes the vast majority of films that have ever been released on the planet Earth. Given our species’ apparently inexhaustible passion for watching people hook their weird hair-brain-nerve things into various trees and animals, the chances that Cameron won’t get the green light from Disney to finish out his saga now seems rather low.

Still, you have to admire a guy who simply won’t be stopped from telling you about a dream he had that one time, and there’s a part of us that (non-spitefully!) wishes Fire And Ash might suddenly bomb, because holy shit, do we want to be at that press conference. Do you think Cameron would run it with a Powerpoint, the better to keep all his Omatikayas, Metkayinas, and Mangkwans in order? Or can the man just spit this stuff straight off the dome, without ever confusing a Toruk with a Tulkun? We can imagine it so clearly: Cameron gripping the sides of his lectern, explaining—with that vague air of “Why don’t you idiots get this?” frustration he seems to default to sometimes—how all of this was, ultimately, simply Eywa’s will.