James Cameron Is Acting Like He's Jesus for Making 'Avatar' Again

“And as I gazed upon my creation I said unto them, ‘Blue, you idiots. MORE BLUE.’”

I don’t know why I have to do this, but it’s some sort of unwritten law that whenever the topic of James Cameron and Avatar comes up, everyone has to give him credit making a bajillion dollars at the box office. Which is great, I guess, but 77 million people also voted for our current President, so maybe we stop genuflecting at the altar of mob rule?

Anyway, first things first, Ol’ Jimmy is winding up the hype machine for Avatar: Fire and Ash by making wanton threats of runtimes that will leave you elderly before the credits roll. Apparently, Avatar: The Way of Water moved too quickly for America’s most psychotic filmmaker, so he’ll be damned if he’s not going to make you marinate in the third installment until the end of time.

“In a nutshell, we had too many ideas packed into act one of movie 2,” Cameron told Empire. “The [film] was moving like a bullet train, and we weren’t drilling down enough on character. So I said, ‘Guys, we’ve got to split it.’ Movie 3 will actually be a little bit longer than movie 2.”

Again, I’m supposed to blindly trust Cameron’s judgment because the guy makes billion dollar movies, but to his credit, he offered up an entirely different and weird as hell reason: Avatar 2 made his wife cry so hard that he got sick of her sh*t and went to bed. I’m not even joking.

Via Empire:

“My wife watched the whole thing from end to end — she had kept herself away from it and I wasn’t showing her bits and pieces as we went along. This was December 22nd,” Cameron recalls. The reaction? “She bawled for four hours.” The director couldn’t even get precise feedback from her. “She kept trying to get her sh*t back together so she could tell me specific reactions, and then she’d just tear up and start crying again. Finally, I’m like, ‘Honey, I’ve got to go to bed. Sorry, we’ll talk about it some other time’,” he laughs.

I’ll go ahead and beat James Cameron to the punch here: Have I made a billion dollar blockbuster that was so emotionally badass my wife’s eyes pissed tears for hours? No. No, I have not. But I did make her really mad on vacation once, so suck on that, Jimmy. FACE.

Avatar: Fire and Ash opens in theaters on December 19, 2025.