James Cameron: 'Avatar' sequels are going to be bitchin'

Director James Cameron boasts about new "Avatar" movies.

James Cameron has one word to describe the next three Avatar sequels: "bitchin'."
The director told Empire magazine in an interview that he's hard at work on scripts for three sequels to Avatar, the most successful movie in history (unadjusted for inflation).
Cameron, whose credits also include Aliens and Titanic, declined in the interview to share plot details following the end of first movie, in which (spoiler alert if you're one of the several hundred people who haven't seen it yet) the native Na'vi expel the corporate evildoers back to Earth.
“I can tell you one thing about them,” Cameron told the magazine. “They’re gonna be bitchin’. You will shit yourself with your mouth wide open.”
Cameron split the writing between Rick Jaffa and Amanda Silver (writers on Rise of the Planet of the Apes), Josh Friedman (The Black Dahlia) and Shane Salerno (Savages).

"We met for seven months and we white-boarded out every scene in every film together,” Cameron told Empire. "I didn’t assign each writer which film they were going to work on until the last day. I knew if I assigned them their scripts ahead of time, they’d tune out every time we were talking about the other movie.”
Jaffa, Friedman and Silver have been assigned to write the second and third sequels, while Salerno is focused on the fourth film, according to IMDb.com.
Cameron said he toyed with the idea of shooting the sequels in 60 frames per second, but instead committed to 48 fps — the same rate used by Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies. Films traditionally screen at 24 fps.
“My thinking at the time was that 60 might be a better segue to the video market,” Cameron told Empire. “I’ll be plugging into a system that’s a little more mature, so it makes sense for me to do 48 frames at this point.”
The first Avatar sequel is expected to hit U.S. theaters on Christmas Day in 2016, with Twentieth Century Fox producing and distributing the movie.
Avatar, which cost $237 million to make, collected a record $2.78 billion in worldwide ticket sales after its Dec. 18, 2009 release. The film used 3D camera technology and a lot of motion capture CGI to tell the story of a disabled Marine who joins a mining company on a distant world called Pandora.