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Sigourney Weaver mades waves when she announced that James Cameron plans as a single massive undertaking. However, producer Jon Landau recently clarified that the will be filmed separate from its peers (assuming it is made at all).

Cameron has since revealed that a fourth movie (again, should it happen) would take on the form of a prequel to his original box office record-obliterating 3D sci-fi epic. Meanwhile, Landau鈥檚 playing down speculation that Cameron intends to spend making Avatar films 鈥� by suggesting that Cameron鈥檚 long-awaited /Battle Angel Alita adaptation will finally come to fruition once the Avatar trilogy has been finished.

picked up the above-mentioned Avatar 4 tidbit during an interview with Cameron, who reiterated that he鈥檚 only working on the scripts for at the moment. Cameron admitted he鈥檚 penning the sequel screenplays as 鈥渙ne big thing鈥�; however, he has also mentioned in the past that new Avatar movies help to complete set in motion by the original installment 鈥� focusing on the further adventures of Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) on Pandora, now that his consciousness has been permanently 鈥渓ocked down鈥� into his Na鈥橵i avatar.

The filmmaker had the following to say, about a prospective Avatar prequel (ie. Avatar 4):

鈥淚 haven鈥檛 really put pen to paper on it, but basically it goes back to the early expeditions of Pandora, and kind of what went wrong with the humans and the Na鈥檝i and what that was like to be an explorer and living in that world. Because when we drop in, even in the first film in 鈥楢vatar 1,鈥� as it will be known in the future, we鈥檙e dropping into a process that鈥檚 35 years in to a whole colonization.鈥�

Cameron made it known that he does not plan to follow in George Lucas鈥� footsteps with the franchise 鈥� by producing three prequels to compliment his original blockbuster trilogy 鈥� rather, once the Avatar trilogy has been finished, 鈥淭he only thing left to do is go back to see what it was like on those first expeditions [to Pandora] and create some new characters that then become legacy characters in later films. It鈥檚 a plan.鈥�

Once Cameron is through exploring the Avatar universe, it sounds as though he plans to move onto other projects. Some five months ago, he made it known that is something he still plans to tackle in the future 鈥� and Landau confirmed as much to , saying:

鈥淲e鈥檒l focus on 鈥楢vatar鈥� for the next four or five years. Hopefully right after that鈥� I am confident you will see [a 'Battle Angel' movie].鈥�

Many Battle Angel fans have been excited by the prospect of Cameron lending his technical prowess and storytelling abilities to a live-action adaptation, but have grown increasingly frustrated by the project鈥檚 lack of progress. Nonetheless, Landau indicated that both he and Cameron remain committed to seeing the film through:

鈥淚t鈥檚 one of my favorite stories, I think it is an incredible story, a journey of self-discovery of a young woman. It is a movie that begs the question: 鈥榃hat does it mean to be human? Are you human if you have a heart, are you human if you have a mind, are you human if you have a soul?鈥� And I look forward to bringing that film to audiences.鈥�

The Avatar sequels are currently without concrete release dates, but Avatar 2 is expected .

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