Avatar: Fire and Ash director James Cameron shares his wife's take on his highly anticipated sci-fi threequel.

Filmmaker James Cameron recently revealed to Empire magazine that the upcoming third installment in his Avatar franchise will actually be longer than 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water, which ran three hours and 12 minutes long.

Avatar: Fire and Ashis by far one of the most anticipated blockbusters of the year, and for good reason. Despite the franchise's detractors, James Cameron proved doubters wrong and delivered an exceptional sequel in Avatar: The Way of Water,

Avatar: Fire and Ash will continue the saga that writer and director James Cameron began in 2009 with Avatar. But according to Cameron, the third film in the franchise was an unexpected chapter in his initial plan for three sequels.

Avatar: Fire and Ash, the third installment of James Cameron’s box office-shattering fantasy franchise, is not for the weak of bladder. The veteran director intends to take audiences on an extended cinematic journey that exceeds the butt-numbing runtime of 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water.

James Cameron knows how to push emotional buttons. Titanic is, once the iceberg hits, an unabashed weepie. The lava thumbs-up at the end of Terminator 2 will have the hardest hearts melted down to scrap.

James Cameron’s third Avatar movie will be even longer than the second. The 70-year-old filmmaker admitted he had too many “great ideas” packed into 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water – which clocked in at three hours and 12 minutes – but he’s gone even bigger with the upcoming Avatar: Fire and Ash.