When Avengers: Endgame dethroned James Cameron’s Avatar at the number one spot at the worldwide box office, many expected the famously competitive Cameron - he has in the past slammed superhero movies - to say something controversial. But after tweeting congratulations to Disney and Marvel after the record-breaking achievement, the filmmaker has now said that Endgame’s success gives him ‘a lot of hope’.
In an interview to Deadline, Cameron said, “Avengers: Endgame is demonstrable proof that people will still go to movie theatres. The thing that scared me most about making Avatar 2 and Avatar 3 was that the market might have shifted so much that it simply was no longer possible to get people that excited about going and sitting in a dark room with a bunch of strangers to watch something.”
Cameron is currently filming the second and third Avatar films, and is in pre-production on Avatar 4 and Avatar 5. —Hindustan Times
